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Crime comic that features a young psychopathic killer.

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.

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

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.

Group of kid vigilantes breaks up a drug ring.

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

Discusses the popularity of comic strips and books, as well as some of the ways they have influenced American culture.

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.

Summarizes a variety of previously conducted studies to explore the potential pedagogical uses of comics.

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.