A Crisis of Innocence

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Army To Limit Sale of Comics crop.jpg
Discusses the Army putting a stop to crime comics with their troops. Also talks about 1/3 of all comics being crime comics in 1948.

Britain Plans Law to Curb Horror Comics crop.pdf
Outlines the British bill to ban the sale of horror comics to children. Claims that children are highly impressionable, and that in reading comic books children can be corrupted.

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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.

Comic Books Banned crop.jpg
Short piece announcing the banning of 34 American comic books containing horror stories of war themes. Further imports of such magazines will be prohibited.

Portland Press Herald March 26 1950 crop.jpg
The journalist speaks with children about why they read comic books, and what they think about the proposed ban on crime comics. Many of the children agree that banning the books would only make them more desirable.

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Deals with the child's interest in Television as a new medium for storytelling. Discusses the shift from comics (not approved by parents) to TV (a generally approved medium).

Portage La Prairie Leader March 27 1952 crop.jpg
Interview with a teacher, a deaconess, a child welfare expert and a youth regarding comic books. The general consensus is that better reading habits should be taught by teachers and parents.

Fear Undesirable crop.jpg
Discusses a government decision to lift the ban on the importation of comic books from the United States. Outlines the anxieties present in censors about the amount of questionable comic book material that will soon be imported into Canada.

Baldur Gazette, February 22 1951.jpg
Report regarding an 11 year old girl strangling herself to death trying to imitate the cover of a horror comic. This article is from Nova Scotia.

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Short snippet that reads: "New Delhi, June 7 - India today announced she has banned the importation of horror comics."
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