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The Much Discussed Comics
Provides a survey of over 8000 elementary and high school students to determine their reading habits and the appeal of comics.
Comic Strips: How Well Can Our Pupils Read Them?
A study of the reading comprehension skills of high school students. Participants were asked to complete reading and vocabulary tests to determine how well they actually understood the text-based content of comics.
Our Children: Parents Well Advised to Censor Publications
Discusses the need to burn comics since they should not be in the hands of children.
Favorite Nursery Rhymes
Cover and illustrations of a book featuring stylized portrayals of childhood innocence typical of the period.
As a Child Redeath so Isn't He: Or, the Perils of Censorship
A high school teacher contests the idea that reading material influences a child's development.
Sharing Between the Shears
Utilizes statistics to argue that children are becoming more violent. Saunders claims that: when a parent hands their child a crime comic, they are allowing them to do as they see in the story.
Should Comic Books be Banned? Magazine Distributor says 'No,' Child Welfare Officer...Yes
Provides a number of statistics about the sale of comic books in Canada and Medicine Hat. Morever, Shiels speaks with individuals who are both for and against the sale of comic books.
Horror Comics Offer Lessons
A list of positive things that come from horror comics.
Why Children Read the Comics
Students from all levels of education are interviewed to determine why they were interested in 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.