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All Burnt Up! - Strange Suspense Stories #19
A gangster needs to lie low until heat from the police dies down. In the meantime, he stays with a woman and her son.
A Study of Leisure Time Reading of Pupils in Junior High School
Discusses a questionnaire given to nearly 700 junior high school students to determine how they liked to spend their leisure time. The results of the survey determined that comic books were the most popular reading choice overall, though fiction was…
Parents' Corner: Time to Suppress Crime Comic Books
Features a scholarly source claiming that distinctions need to be made between good and bad comic books. While Richmond claims there is merit in the "good" ones, the bad ones are causing children to become violent.
Hangman's Holiday - Horrific #1
A young boy named George grows up to be a hangman. He eventually dies by getting tangled in a rope like his victims.
Cover - Pep Comics #17
Comic cover featuring superhero 'The Hangman.' Cited as the inspiration for a boy's accidental death by hanging.
The Case of the Giggling Killer - Exposed #2
Crime comic that features a young psychopathic killer.
Wide Open Windows
Title page depicting a young boy and girl looking out of a window. There is a puppy sitting between the two children and an open book sitting next to them.
I Killed Mary - Weird Mysteries #8
A shy teenage boy kills a popular teen girl to make people notice him.
Comic' Note
Addition to an editorial noting that, since they are read primarily by children, comics should present morality.
Criticize B.C. Plan: Doubt Toronto to Burn Crime, Horror Comics
Claims that the burning of comic books could actually make children more inclined to read the very books that are being burned.