A Crisis of Innocence

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Haunted Thrills #12 (Farrell - Nov 1953).jpg
Comic cover featuring a witch showing a woman a vision of a skull in her crystal ball.

This Magazine is Haunted #6 (Fawcett - Aug 1952).jpg
Comic cover featuring skeletal ghosts rising out of a graveyard.

Better:Standard The Unseen #9.jpg
Comic cover depicting a zombie holding an unconscious woman in a graveyard.

Better:Standard Out of the Shadows #9.jpg
Comic cover portraying a live skeleton returning home, as a man and woman look on in fright.

Ace Hand of Fate #22.jpg
Comic cover depicting the ghost of fate tempting a couple to travel into the future.

horrible herman_converted.pdf
A deformed child develops an advanced intellect and psychic powers, and comes to view other humans as "animals."

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A report by Paul Coates for "Confidential File" in 1955, regarding the relationship between juvenile delinquency
and comics, and formation of the Comics Code.

tag...you're it_converted.pdf
A town is terrorized by a vampire, and a husband and wife begin to suspect that the other has been turned. It is revealed that their young son is the vampire.

Harvey Witches Tales #25.jpg
Comic cover depicting a man ringing a bell with a severed head inside.

Britain Plans Law to Curb Horror Comics crop.pdf
Outlines the British bill to ban the sale of horror comics to children. Claims that children are highly impressionable, and that in reading comic books children can be corrupted.
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