A Crisis of Innocence

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Announces that Entertaining Comics is dropping 5 of their popular crime and horror comic series due to a drop in sales brought on by the backlash of anti-comic organizations.

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Outlines an initiative that has been taken by New Mexico public schools, in which children are encouraged to read books over comic books.

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Outlines an initiative in which children traded in 10 Comic Books to receive 1 classic novel. This article speaks to the great success of such an event.

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Outlines the fact that eight provinces backed a proposal made by Canadian Justice Minister Garson, which made it a criminal offence to produce or distribute crime comics.

Comic Criminals to Burn.pdf
Reports a New Jersey comic book burning, for which local Cub Scouts collected horror comics to be burned. A portable incinerator will be brought in to do the burning.

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Discusses a book burning that took place in Vancouver, in which the children received classic books in return for burning up their crime and horror comics.

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Discusses the burning of 2000 comic books, as ordered by the Bishop of the Albany Catholic Diocese

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Short newspaper clipping about how a Comic Book burning was averted in favour of donating the comic books to the Salvation Army as scrap paper.

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Highlights 25 comic book titles that will be banned due to the lewd content being depicted in them.

Gettysburg Times September 13 1955.pdf
Outlines a bill in Pennsylvania, that 11 female members of commerce were hoping to have passed, that would see the publication and distribution of comics to those under the age of 18 as a criminal offence. In breaking this law the offender would be…
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