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Cover - Crime Does Not Pay #131
Comic cover portraying two female criminals about to run over a policeman.
Cover - All-Famous Police Cases #15
Comic cover depicting a man falling from a window, and a policeman looking on in shock.
Cover - Shocking Mystery Cases #56
Comic cover featuring a man with a gun being chased by a policeman, appearing to break through the page.
Cover - Startling Terror Tales #11
Comic cover featuring a man with a gun in the foreground, with multiple policemen in the background.
Cover - Crime Mysteries #12
Comic cover depicting a painting coming to life to protect a woman from being murdered.
Cover - Crime Smashers #8
Comic cover depicting a police officer shooting a thief.
Some Facts About Juvenile Delinquency
A government sanctioned study and educational publication on juvenile delinquency. Notes an 17% increase in youth appearing before juvenile courts between 1948 and 1951.
The Comics and Delinquency: Cause or Scapegoat
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.
Action Taken to Control Distribution of Objectionable Comic Books
Briefly outlines the steps that different cities and counties took to ban or limit the sale of objectionable comics.
The Comics War
Cavanagh proposes to investigate why children like comic books and whether or not they are legitimately harmful to them. He discusses aggression and phantasy, before moving on to psychodynamics.