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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.

Features a series of brief clips showing children, and then adults, reading comics.

Wartime commentary on the comics in newspapers. Condemns their content and worries about the impact on children.

Stories about young boys that get into different situations. The boys are often presented as getting into trouble, while also being depicted in an innocent fashion.

Deals primarily with newspaper comics, and makes reference to the fact that comic book reading can be greatly beneficial for the young reader.

Kinneman discusses the results of a questionnaire she asked students to fill out. Some of the recorded student responses echo ideas held by anti-comic journalists and psychiatrists.

A junior high teacher poses a series of questions to his students regarding their comic book preferences and purchasing habits. Some of their answers are included here.