A Crisis of Innocence

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Crime and Punishment #15, pg. 39.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from young and old fans.

Crime and Punishment #8, pg. 49.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a school principal and a fourteen-year-old.

Crime and Punishment #6, pg. 44.jpg
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.

ACG   Out Of The Night #6 (1953) - Page 1.pdf
The story of children who can transform into wolves. The wolves take advantage of adults' sympathy when they are in their human form, and become killers in their wolf form.

Greenville Delta Democrat Times April 10 1949 crop.jpg
Explores the fact that there are very few laws governing the sale of crime and horror comics.

American Mercury Sad Case of the Funnies.pdf
Wartime commentary on the comics in newspapers. Condemns their content and worries about the impact on children.

Bender - The Psychology of Children's Reading and the Comics.pdf
An exploration of fantasy and childhood psychological development.

McCarthy and Smith - The Much Discussed Comics.pdf
Provides a survey of over 8000 elementary and high school students to determine their reading habits and the appeal of comics.

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Citing a new Toronto Board of Education report, this article examines the idea that comic books do not cause juvenile delinquency. Tumpane instead claims the reading of comic books perpetuates useless knowledge when one could instead be reading…

Changing Times1954.pdf
Alerts parents to distasteful literature: comics, romance magazines, and war novels. The article notes the quality of children's literature and means to encourage parents to divert their children from reading comics.
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