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Crime, Horror Comic Book Cleanup Demanded by Delinquency Probers: Senators Hit Comic Books
Discusses the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommitee's worries about post-war crime comic books.
Criticize B.C. Plan: Doubt Toronto to Burn Crime, Horror Comics
Claims that the burning of comic books could actually make children more inclined to read the very books that are being burned.
Encourage Better Reading Habits: Are Comic Books Harmful to Youth? Portagers Have Interesting Answers Concensus is Comic Ban of No Use
Interview with a teacher, a deaconess, a child welfare expert and a youth regarding comic books. The general consensus is that better reading habits should be taught by teachers and parents.
Encourage Good Reading Habits Best Way of Abolishing Comics Panel Discussion Decides Here: Sponsored by Women's Council
Looks to schools and parents as being the ones that must take control of a child's reading habits, so as to instill in them a want to read books over comics.
Flames Hit Two Buildings: Children Admit They Started Fire While Burning Comic Books In Home
Outlines an apartment fire that took place in Hamilton. The children, who allegedly started the fire, claim that they were burning their comic books when the fire got out of hand.
Forum Finds Comic Books Only Symptom, Not Disease: Four Experts on "I Want to Know" Program Call Parental Neglect More Influential Factor in Juvenile Delinquency -- Funny Book and Adventure "Preferred"
Report on a radio forum on comics and juvenile delinquency. Included a principal, psychiatrist, librarian, PTA member, and dean of the state teacher's college.
Forum Finds Good as Well as Bad in Comic Books
Features the opinions of two psychologists, and a policeman, who have been studying the effects of comic books on children.
Hitler Would Be At Home Here
Claims that the blaming of juvenile delinquency on comic books is absurd. Miles notes that radio and film are far more likely to influence children to act violently.
Horror Comics: Parents Buy Most, Say Dealers
Discusses a meeting between six comic book dealers and 8 home and school associations, which took place in Oakville, regarding the sale of horror comic books.
Horror Comics Go Up In Flames
An image of Len Wynne, head of Vancouver's Junior Chamber of Commerce, throwing popular horror comics on to a public "pyre" in Vancouver.