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Explores the New York State Joint Legislative Committee's attempts to censor crime and love comics in 1951. The image features a number of the popular comics of the time laid out on a table.

William Gaines is interviewed about whether or not he feels as though his horror comics are influencing children to become violent criminals.

Utilizes statistics to argue that children are becoming more violent. Saunders claims that: when a parent hands their child a crime comic, they are allowing them to do as they see in the story.

A number of statistics are given about how many children read comic books.

Among other topics, discusses Edgar Bromberger's reports on the necessity for psychiatric consultation in hospitals.