A Crisis of Innocence

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Crime Comics and the Constitution - Stanford.pdf
Discussing the possibility of an all out ban on crime comics. Writer(s) call for more investigation into the potential dangers of crime and horror comic books.

Lethbridge Herald February 11 1949 crop.jpg
Outlines a double murder that took place in Talladega, Alabama in which a man killed his wife and her friend. It is said in the article that the murderer read a crime comic book shortly before the murder.

Green Hornet Fights Crime #38, pg. 5.jpg
Page from a Green Hornet comic depicting an arsonist. Mentioned in the Fulton Bill hearing.

Crawling Evil.png
A young girl is told that all men are evil by her grandmother, who teaches her to hate them. She later learns witchcraft and begins to murder men.

Harvey Witches Tales #25.jpg
Comic cover depicting a man ringing a bell with a severed head inside.

Weird Terror #7 (Comic Media - Sept 1953).jpg
Comic cover depicting a killer cremating a body.

Weird-Science-Fant-27.jpg
Comic cover depicting three astronauts fighting a giant monster.

Ace Web of Mystery #10.jpg
Comic cover featuring a woman startled by her monstrous appearance in a mirror.

Quality Web of Evil #7.jpg
A comic cover depicting a man being strangled by severed arms.

Ajax-Farrell Voodoo #14.jpg
Comic cover portraying a skeleton judging a beauty pageant.
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