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Comics, especially the crime / horror titles pioneered by EC Comics, were not lacking in gruesome images ; Wertham reproduced these extensively, pointing out what he saw as recurring morbid themes such as " injury to the eye " ( as depicted in Plastic Man creator Jack Cole's " Murder, Morphine and Me ", which he illustrated and probably wrote for publisher Magazine Village's True Crime Comics Vol.

1, # 2 ( May 1947 ); it involved dope-dealing protagonist Mary Kennedy nearly getting stabbed in the eye " by a junkie with a hypothermic needle " in her dream sequence ).

Many of his other conjectures, particularly about hidden sexual themes ( e. g. images of female nudity concealed in drawings of muscles and tree bark, or Batman and Robin as gay partners ), were met with derision within the comics industry.

( Wertham's claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as much ; however, Wertham also claimed that Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian.