State and City Officials Warn Comics Publishers to 'Clean Up'
Subject
Newspaper Articles
Description
Kravsow's final article in his series discussing violent and sexual comic books. He notes warnings from various public officials for publishers to police their content.
Public Taste, Profit Used to Justify 'Horror' Comics
Subject
Newspaper Articles
Description
Kravsow discusses comic book publishers' response to the controversy. Many of these publishers insist that it is the responsibility of the parents to mediate their child's reading habits.
Discusses a reporter's investigation of comic books in local drugstores and why they are unsuitable for young readers. Kravsow describes some of stories distributed in crime and horror comics.
The Citizens' Committee and Comic-Book Control: A Study of Extragovernmental Restraint
Subject
Journal Articles
Description
Examines the Citizens' Committee for Better Juvenile Literature and their investigation of crime and horror comics. Twomey additionally provides an overview of the controversy.
Creator
Twomey, John E. (writer)
Source
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1190290
Publisher
Duke University School of Law
Date
1955
Rights
JSTOR
Format
PDF
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Twomey, John E. "The Citizens' Committee and Comic-Book Control: A Study of Extragovernmental Restraint." Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 22, no. 4, 1955: 621-629. JSTOR. Web. 28 July 2018.
Image of Len Wynne standing over burning comics. The caption describes the Jaycee Youth Leadership committee, and their role in collecting and burning 8000 comics in Vancouver.