A Crisis of Innocence

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Guns Against Gangsters V1 _5 - Page 2.jpg
Letters from readers to the editor praising the stories in Guns Against Gangsters.

davidlettertotheeditor.pdf
14-year-old David P. Wigransky responds to Dr. Fredric Wertham's article "The Comics. . . Very Funny!" and John M. Brown's "The Case Against the Comics."

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The world's greatest hunter is killed by intelligent dinosaurs, who use his head as a bowling ball. A flashback reveals his desire to hunt animals began when he was a child.

Gastonia Gazette November 7 1953.pdf
Claims that because little Johnny is reading crime comics, he will one day run over an old lady and leave her to die in the street.

Kingsport Times News July 8 1956 crop.jpg
Discusses how comic book censorship has been effective in some respects in the United States. Won Lee explores the fact that children are becoming more discerning in their reading choices, thus losing interest in obscene comics.

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Comic cover depicting three astronauts fighting a giant monster.

Eerie #2 (Avon - Aug:Sept 1951).jpg
Comic cover portraying a woman being led in chains by a skeleton.

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Comic cover depicting a man being riddled with bullets by a gunman.

Wanted Comics   JVJ #9 - Page 1.pdf
Story of a boy who becomes a juvenile delinquent. He is set on the 'right path' by Jay Jostyn.

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