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A shy teenage boy kills a popular teen girl to make people notice him.

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

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.

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…

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

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

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

Comic cover depicting a man being terrified by a skeleton.

Comic cover depicting talking zombies in a graveyard.

Movie poster for the 1949 film Bad Boy.