A Crisis of Innocence

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The Case of the Giggling Killer, pg. 28.tiff
Crime comic that features a young psychopathic killer.

AmericanJournalOfPsychotherapy1948.pdf
Discusses a study in which eighty children answered six questions regarding comic books and their reading habits in order to determine its effects on their behavior.

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

the closet_converted.pdf
An aunt keeps her niece undernourished and trapped in a closet. The girl tricks her aunt into going into the closet and traps her there instead.

Crime and Justice 011   Charlton      JVJon Mouse5150 DCP #1 (1953) - Page 1.pdf
Group of kid vigilantes breaks up a drug ring.

AmericanJournalOfPsychotherapy1948.pdf
Argues that the entire success of comics is based upon violence.

Zorbaugh - The Comics, There They Stand.pdf
Discusses the popularity of comic strips and books, as well as some of the ways they have influenced American culture.

Thrasher - The Comics and Delinquency.pdf
A rebuttal to Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. Thrasher criticizes Wertham's methods, and and suggests that he is projecting social frustrations upon comics.

The Comics and the Instructional Method- Sones.pdf
Summarizes a variety of previously conducted studies to explore the potential pedagogical uses of comics.

Kinneman - The Comics and Their Appeal to the Youth of Today.pdf
Kinneman discusses the results of a questionnaire she asked students to fill out. Some of the recorded student responses echo ideas held by anti-comic journalists and psychiatrists.
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