Gone are the days of the 1950s when True Crime, National Enquirer and others had blood and guts covers on their tabloids at the checkout stands.
We kids had to run that gauntlet every time we went to the stores, and were well acquainted with death by the time we were eight years old.
Now they are afraid to even show the equivalent of the old covers on their magazines.
“Gone are the days of the 1950s when True Crime, National Enquirer and others had blood and guts covers on their tabloids...”
Then there was True, Stag, and Argosy men’s magazines which featured half naked native babes blasting the Japs with machine guns, led by a lone Marine.
Couldn’t buy them unless you were 16 or something. But suburban daddy war vets bought them like crazy.
Yep! My dad always had a variety of crime magazines back in the 1940-50s, pre-TV. As a young boy (b.’42) I used to read those mags. Lots of photos of bloody bodies and details of what had happened.