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A junior high teacher poses a series of questions to his students regarding their comic book preferences and purchasing habits. Some of their answers are included here.

Frank provides brief summaries of the various arguments for and against comic books.

A contemporary analysis of censorship and the fears of youth rebellion in the 1950s.

Cavanagh proposes to investigate why children like comic books and whether or not they are legitimately harmful to them. He discusses aggression and phantasy, before moving on to psychodynamics.

Burton considers how educators can encourage their students to read books other than comics by utilizing "transition books" that carry similar appeal as comics.

Discusses a questionnaire given to nearly 700 junior high school students to determine how they liked to spend their leisure time. The results of the survey determined that comic books were the most popular reading choice overall, though fiction was…

Briefly outlines the steps that different cities and counties took to ban or limit the sale of objectionable comics.

Presents the results of a survey given to adults about what they thought of comic books.

Discusses the effects that horror comic books are having on not just children, but people of all ages.

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