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Seduction of the Innocent
U.K. dust jacket of Dr. Frederic Wertham's highly influential study linking juvenile delinquency and comic book reading.
Homer Price
Illustration from one of the Homer Price books, which depicts a group of boys in a malt shop/convenience store, looking at comic books.
Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency: Interim Report of Committee on Judiciary - March 14th, 1955
Deals with the findings of the Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency's exploration into the impact of mass media on youth and their behaviour.
Juvenile Delinquency (Comic Books): Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency off the Committee of the Judiciary United States Senate - April 22nd to June 4th, 1954
Transcripts of the Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Juvenile delinquency, held between April 22 and June 4, 1954.
Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act - 1955
Outlines the British Act meant to prevent the distribution and sale of offensive material to young people.
Criminal Code, Part V 163-172 - 2014
Sections 163-172 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which covers the creation, publication, and distribution of crime comics, as well as materials which may present sexual or violent subjects to children.
House of Commons Debates - October 7th, 1949
Continued discussion of amending the Criminal Code to address violence depicted in comic books and magazines, and their potential to induce violence.
House of Commons Debates - June 3rd, 1948
Fulton asks for revision of Juvenile Delinquents Act.
Australian Obscene Publications - May 4th, 1954
Continued discussion of different clauses for the Bill, as well as penalties.
Australian Obscene Publications - April 14th, 1954
Discussions of morality and distribution. Comic books and other obscene periodicals are consistently viewed as serious threats to the morals of young people.