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This Is Your Page: Speak Up!
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a school principal and a fourteen-year-old.
This Is Your Page: Speak Up!
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.
The Psychology of Children's Reading and the Comics
An exploration of fantasy and childhood psychological development.
The Evil of Comic Books
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…
The Delinquents: Censorship and Youth Culture in Recent U.S. History
A contemporary analysis of censorship and the fears of youth rebellion in the 1950s.
The Comics as a Social Force
Gruenberg argues that people often feared innovation in technological and mediums of expression, and cites this the reason for the criticism against comics.
The Comics and Their Appeal to the Youth of Today
Kinneman discusses the results of a questionnaire she asked students to fill out. Some of the recorded student responses echo ideas held by anti-comic journalists and psychiatrists.
The Comics and Instructional Method
Summarizes a variety of previously conducted studies to explore the potential pedagogical uses of comics.
The Comics and Delinquency: Cause or Scapegoat
A rebuttal to Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. Thrasher criticizes Wertham's methods, and and suggests that he is projecting social frustrations upon comics.
The Case Against Comics: A Review of The Seduction of the Innocent
Muhlen's review of The Seduction of the Innocent. He criticizes the effectiveness of Wertham's book as being a catalyst for change.