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Cover of the 1924 edition of Heidi featuring shepherd children in an idealized setting.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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…

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