A Crisis of Innocence

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through the looking glass comic_convertedfromdocx.pdf
Comic version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which features an evil, demonic Alice.

Horror Comics Vanish From Library of Lords crop.jpg
Discusses how horror comics have gone missing in the Library of Lords in Britain.

Weird Terror #7 (Comic Media - Sept 1953).jpg
Comic cover depicting a killer cremating a body.

Fight Against Horror Comics.pdf
A look at the way that other parts of the world were also trying to ban horror comics.

Trojan Crime Mysteries #12.jpg
Comic cover depicting a painting coming to life to protect a woman from being murdered.

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Comic cover depicting close up shots of three gruesome zombies.

Buffalo Center Tribune May 19 1955 crop.jpg
Written by a highschool senior, this editorial looks at the way that new technologies negatively influence children.

Beware #6 - Borrowed Blood.jpg
Cited by Dr. Wertham in Seduction of the Innocent, Beware #6 features a story about gypsies taking the life of a doctor for killing their son with tainted blood. The child is depicted in a rather innocent fashion within the story.

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William Gaines is interviewed about whether or not he feels as though his horror comics are influencing children to become violent criminals.

Black Magic #24, cover.jpg
Comic cover depicting a monster that a woman believes to be her son.
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