A Crisis of Innocence

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Black Magic #12, cover.jpg
Comic cover depicting a boy in a trance, making contact with the dead.

Ace Beyond #25.jpg
Comic cover depicting two skeletons flying a plane.

Beware! Terror Tales #6 (Fawcett - Mar 1953).jpg
Comic cover depicting a man being terrified by a skeleton.

Trojan Beware #13.jpg
Comic cover featuring a young couple outside a haunted house.

Ace Baffling #25.jpg
Comic cover featuring a man on a floating staircase in a surreal landscape, frightened by an unseen figure before him.

Star All-Famous Police Cases #15.jpg
Comic cover depicting a man falling from a window, and a policeman looking on in shock.

Adventures Into the Unknown #6 (ACG - Aug 1949).jpg
Comic cover featuring two giant hands attacking a man in a rowboat.

Better:Standard Adventures Into Darkness #14.jpg
Comic cover depicting a shipwrecked man about to be saved by a boat full of skeletons.

Announces a meeting of the Hartford County Council, where they will discuss the development of a campaign to combat obscene comic books.

Cedar Rapids Gazette October 17 1954.pdf
States that the public's reading tastes are changing as a result of newspaper coverage of the ongoing crisis. Some comic book publishers and distributors are choosing to self-censor, but this effort is not enough to protect children.
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