A Crisis of Innocence

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Explains the numerous issues that are present in trying to ban crime comics in Canada.

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Explores the New York State Joint Legislative Committee's attempts to censor crime and love comics in 1951. The image features a number of the popular comics of the time laid out on a table.

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Utilizes statistics to argue that children are becoming more violent. Saunders claims that: when a parent hands their child a crime comic, they are allowing them to do as they see in the story.

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A cruel stepfather accidentally kills his stepson, and the boy's teddy bear kills him in revenge.

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Provides a number of statistics about the sale of comic books in Canada and Medicine Hat. Morever, Shiels speaks with individuals who are both for and against the sale of comic books.

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Children's tale of Sinbad the Sailor.

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Page with advertisements for bubblegum and a horror comic book.

Fairy Tale Parade  Jon corrected #5 - Page 1.pdf
Comic version of the well-known Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.

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Movie poster for the 1950 film So Young So Bad.
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