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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic Books&#039; -- The Shape of Thugs To Come: Offensive &#039;Pulp&#039; Magazines Misuse Visual Education]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Looks at the type of language being presented to readers in the crime comics that are so popular. Argues that children are being presented with language that is not conducive to the building of a proper vocabulary.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Southtown Economist]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11 April 2014]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Daily Southtown]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF, JPG]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;&#039;Comic&#039; Books -- The Shape of Thugs to Come: Offensive Pulp Magazines Misuse Visual Education.&quot; Southtown Economist [Chicago], 11 April 2014: 1. Web. 13 March 2014.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/252">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic Books&#039; Reading Value Emphasized]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emphasizes the importance of comic books for children. It is noted that comic books provide something for them that other forms of children&#039;s literature does not.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[http://ezproxy.lib.ryerson.ca/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.lib.ryerson.ca/docview/151923996?accountid=13631]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Washington Post]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[26 July 1947]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[ProQuest]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF, JPG]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;Comic Books&#039; Reading Value Emphasized.&quot; The Washington Post, 26 July 1947: 6. Web. ProQuest. 22 March 2014.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/254">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic Criminals to Burn]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reports a New Jersey comic book burning, for which local Cub Scouts collected horror comics to be burned. A portable incinerator will be brought in to do the burning.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[http://ezproxy.lib.ryerson.ca/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.lib.ryerson.ca/docview/105823248?accountid=13631]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[New York Times]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[7 January 1949]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[ProQuest]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;Comic Criminals to Burn.&quot; New York Times, 7 January 1949: 23. Web. 28 December 2013.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/678">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic Reader&#039;s Letter Supporting Crime Comics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Letter]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[14-year-old Robert Merdian presents his counter-arguments to the claim that crime comics encourage delinquency. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Merdian, Robert (writer)]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1954]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Letter]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Merdian, Robert. &quot;Comic Reader&#039;s Letter Supporting Crime Comics.&quot; (1954). Print. ]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/184">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic Strips: How Well Can Our Pupils Read Them?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Journal Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, Claude (writer)]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[http://www.jstor.org/stable/30175986]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Taylor &amp; Francis, Ltd.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[March 1950]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[JSTOR]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Journal Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Mitchell, Claude. &quot;Comic Strips: How Well Can Our Pupils Read Them?&quot; The Clearing House, vol. 24, no. 7, March 1950: 415-8. JSTOR. Web. 19 May 2015.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/257">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic&#039; Books - Their Effect on Child Eyes: Jumbled &#039;Panels&#039; and Poor Printing Tax Vision Heavily]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses comic books&#039; alleged cause of myopia in the children who read them. Art in comics is identified as the reason, citing its poor quality.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Southtown Economist]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1 April 1945]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Daily Southtown]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF, JPG]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;&#039;Comic&#039; Books - Their Effect on Child&#039;s Eyes: Jumbled &#039;Panels&#039; and Poor Printing Tax Vision Heavily.&quot; Southtown Economist [Chicago], 1 April 1945: 1. Web. 13 March 2014.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/258">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic&#039; Books - Who Are Their Readers: Nine Children of Every 10 are Subjected to Effect of Crime-Story Thrillers: Surveys Show Vast Audience of Impressionable Youngsters Under Influence of Publications]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A number of statistics are given about how many children read comic books. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Southtown Economist]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[4 April 1945]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Daily Southtown]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;&#039;Comic&#039; Books -- Who are Their Readers: Nine Children of Every 10 Are Subjected to Effect of Crime-Story Thrillers.&quot; Southtown Economist [Chicago], 4 April 1945: 1. Web. 13 March 2014.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/259">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic&#039; Books Indicted by Economist as Menace to Millions of Children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the effect that crime comic books have on young children. Article states that although good often triumphs over evil, the depictions of evil tend to more prevalent in the illustrations.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Southtown Economist]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[21 March 1945]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Daily Southtown]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF, JPG]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;Comic Books Indicted by Economist as Menace to Millions of Children.&quot; Southtown Economist [Chicago], 21 March 1945: 2. Web. 12 March 2014.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/260">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comic&#039; Note]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addition to an editorial noting that, since they are read primarily by children, comics should present morality. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Florence Morning News]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[17 October 1948]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;&#039;Comic&#039; Note.&quot; Florence Morning News, 17 October 1948: 4A. Web. 2 February 2014.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://crisisofinnocence.library.torontomu.ca/items/show/263">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comics and Crime]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Newspaper Articles]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The journalist speaks with children about why they read comic books, and what they think about the proposed ban on crime comics. Many of the children agree that banning the books would only make them more desirable.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Portland Press Herald]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[26 March 1950]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Portland Press Herald]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF, JPG]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Newspaper Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;Comics and Crime.&quot; Portland Press Herald, 26 March 1950: 2. Web. 23 March 2014.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
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