Sex and Crime Featured in 'Comic' Books Sold in City: Syracuse Tour Reveals Variety of Spicy Tales: State Committee Issues Threat of Censorship

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Title

Sex and Crime Featured in 'Comic' Books Sold in City: Syracuse Tour Reveals Variety of Spicy Tales: State Committee Issues Threat of Censorship

Subject

Newspaper Articles

Description

Explores the New York State Joint Legislative Committee's attempts to censor crime and love comics in 1951. The image features a number of the popular comics of the time laid out on a table.

Creator

Berger, Dick (writer)

Publisher

Syracuse Post Standard

Date

13 May 1951

Rights

The Post-Standard

Format

PDF, JPG

Type

Newspaper Article

Bibliographic Citation

Berger, Dick. "Do You Know What Your Children Read." Syracuse Post Standard, 13 May 1951: 25. Web. 13 April 2014.

Citation

Berger, Dick (writer), “Sex and Crime Featured in 'Comic' Books Sold in City: Syracuse Tour Reveals Variety of Spicy Tales: State Committee Issues Threat of Censorship,” A Crisis of Innocence, accessed June 21, 2026, http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/index.php/items/show/328.