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Blood Is the Harvest (American comic book, 1950)

Text: Blood Is the Harvest.

Year: 1950.

Publisher: Catechetical Guild Educational Society of Saint Paul.

Artist: NA.

Additional Information: Anti-communist comic book, a reimagining of the real life case of Pavlik Morozov, a Soviet boy who allegedly reported his father to the authorities in 1932, later resulting in his own murder at the hands of vengeful family members. In the comic Morosov is depicted as a victim of communist brainwashing, rather than the heroic martyr figure of Soviet propaganda. Full scan here.