Just watch CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and you'll see what I mean.

However, one reader argued that the cannibalism in the story 'obscured the point' and suggested that 'it's stated motives a bit suspect.' This raises the question of horror's ability to illuminate social issues without becoming complicit in the social ills it purports to condemn.

The letters column of the next issue featured several responses to the story, most in support. Pacific Comics obviously realized that Jones' story would provoke controversy in an editorial, April Campbell tried to preempt negative reader response by arguing that story served a purpose by 'portraying bigotry, not for the purpose of promoting it, but to remind our readers that it not only has existed in the past, but it exists in even more insidious forms today.' Yet, the sensational aspect of the story calls that purpose into question. These themes reached their apex with 'Banjo Lessons,' a story that foregrounds racism in some startling and unsettling ways. Publishers use these marks when books are returned to them.Now, here's something perfectly nasty and unpleasant for the holiday season! In the 1980s, Pacific Comics pushed the horror envelope with TWISTED TALES, an anthology series featuring the work of Bruce Jones, who often featured themes of intolerance and social inequity.

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