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Illustration from one of the Homer Price books, which depicts a group of boys in a malt shop/convenience store, looking at comic books.

A Peanuts comic strip from June 22, 1952, depicting Charlie Brown browsing a comic book rack.

Animal Comics was the sort of child-friendly title adults tended to assume was representative of the medium. A typical story from the series, 'Little Dinky' is included here to demonstrate the extent to which such comics coincided with the visual…

The cover of "Sparky Watts" issue 2, featuring Sparky holding open the mouth of an alligator as he urges his friend Yoo-Hoo to escape.

Cover of "Underworld Crime" issue 7, depicting two criminals threatening a bound woman.

Cover of "Crime Does Not Pay" issue 36, depicting bloody, lawless mayhem.

Cover of horror comic "Chamber of Chills" issue 23, depicting a zombie attempting to kiss a women.

A record of the discussions held by the House of Commons in 1948 regarding the distribution of comics in Canada. Fulton argues that there is a link between delinquent behavior in children and several comic titles.

Victorian-era oil painting of a young girl looking wistfully out a window.

Canadian School Reader, the cover of which portrays a typical scene of childhood innocence, with two children and a puppy peering out the window onto a natural scene.