Existing comment:
Vincent Giarrano, c 1960
Batman: Seduction of the Gun, Page 12, 1993:
Between 1987 and 1993, handgun violence surged from around 8,500 incidents to nearly 14,000 per year in the United States. In 1990, the son of a Warner Brothers executive who worked with DC Comics was murdered, and in response, DC published Batman: Seduction of the Gun, with proceeds going to a charitable educational foundation. In 1993, when Governor Douglas Wilder became a proponent of the one-handgun-a-month law, he sent every legislator a copy of the Batman issue. The law passed.
"It felt great working on something that related to the real world. It was at a time when guns were showing up in schools much too often. With my art for this story, I tried to convey the destructive nature of firearms."
-- Vincent Giarrano |