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A group of children take revenge against their cruel orphanage director when he refuses to get them a pumpkin for Halloween. The last panel of the comic actually features a child laughing maniacally as he holds up the man's severed, hallowed out…

A child fantasizes about burning things, and grows up to be a pyromaniac.

Discusses a reporter's investigation of comic books in local drugstores and why they are unsuitable for young readers. Kravsow describes some of stories distributed in crime and horror comics.

This story is about a man who is given a vial of liquid that allows him to have whatever he wants in the world. The catch is that when the vial is emptied the man will die. The man's young daughter eventually sneaks in and finds the vial, and smashes…

14-year-old David P. Wigransky responds to Dr. Fredric Wertham's article "The Comics. . . Very Funny!" and John M. Brown's "The Case Against the Comics."

An photograph of David Pace Wigransky who, at the age of fourteen, published a response to the work of Dr. Wertham in the July 24th issue of the Saturday Review of Literature (1948). Wigransky defended comic books, pointing to the many flaws in…

Claims that the burning of comic books could actually make children more inclined to read the very books that are being burned.

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.

Discusses the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommitee's worries about post-war crime comic books.

A quiz testing readers' knowledge of crime detection terminology.