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A mother's letter urging the ban of crime and mystery comics to the newly appointed head of the committee for the investigation of juvenile delinquency.

Comic version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which features an evil, demonic Alice.

Discusses how horror comics have gone missing in the Library of Lords in Britain.

A serial killer ends up being killed by his psychiatrist. The psychiatrist determines that the man's desire to kill developed when he was a boy.

Explains the unanimous vote that the council judiciary committee passed in order to ban the sale and exhibition of obscene publications.

Comic shows the difference between two childhood friends in a gang. One has a change of heart and grows up to be the judge who sentences the other to death.

Story features Maggie in depictions of innocence, surrounded by animals and nature.

Cover of one of the 'Dick and Jane' books, the protagonists of which became prototypically innocent children for many American readers.

Gruenberg argues that people often feared innovation in technological and mediums of expression, and cites this the reason for the criticism against comics.

Crime comic that depicts the criminal's violent childhood.