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Discusses a book burning that took place in Vancouver, in which the children received classic books in return for burning up their crime and horror comics.

Notes the move by E. D. Fulton to ban the production and sale of Crime comics in Canada. Flaherty explains that the two men who most approved of the bill were conservative clergymen.

Text of the Comics Code, adopted by the Comics Magazine Association of America, which served as the basis for the industry's self-regulation.

Letters from readers with responses from the editor.

Discusses comic book censorship, and the fact that it is infringing on people's ability to read whatever they want.

Meeting of the City Federation of Women's Clubs. Author urges parents to provide literature with a moral backbone for children.

An excerpt from Comic Book confidential.

Discusses story of 14 year-old Roy Adams who suffocated and performed an "unnatural sex act" on an 8-year-old girl. The altercation allegedly took place following an argument about ownership of a comic book.

Presents a backlash to the bill passed in Canada in 1949 that put a number of sanctions on the distribution of horror and crime comic books.

States that in the year 1948 700,000,000 comics were sold. Goes on to present the comic book reading habits of a 14 year-old named David.