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Movie poster for the 1950 film So Young So Bad.

Movie poster for the 1949 film Bad Boy.

Comic cover depicting talking zombies in a graveyard.

Comic cover depicting a man being terrified by a skeleton.

A boy draws on his knowledge gained from reading comics to foil a robbery.

Examines the Citizens' Committee for Better Juvenile Literature and their investigation of crime and horror comics. Twomey additionally provides an overview of the controversy.

Comic cover portraying two female criminals about to run over a policeman.

Citing a new Toronto Board of Education report, this article examines the idea that comic books do not cause juvenile delinquency. Tumpane instead claims the reading of comic books perpetuates useless knowledge when one could instead be reading…

Claims that comics have no merit because they do not instill a love for the English language, which is instilled by other forms of literature.

Tumpane defends his previous assertion that comic books do not offer anything of use to child readers.