He pointed out themes about death such as `` injury to the eye '' that he thought were common . One example Jack Cole 's `` Murder , Morphine and Me '' in Magazine Village 's True Crime Comics Vol .
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 .