A Crisis of Innocence

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all burnt up_converted.pdf
A gangster needs to lie low until heat from the police dies down. In the meantime, he stays with a woman and her son.

Bloody Mary, pg. 10.tiff
Comic book story that depicts an innocent-looking young girl murdering people.

Beware #6 - Borrowed Blood.jpg
Cited by Dr. Wertham in Seduction of the Innocent, Beware #6 features a story about gypsies taking the life of a doctor for killing their son with tainted blood. The child is depicted in a rather innocent fashion within the story.

bottoms up_convertedfromdocx.pdf
A woman murders her alcoholic husband, stashes his body parts in bottles of whiskey, and returns them to a bootlegger. Comic referenced in the senate hearing on juvenile delinquency.

Crawling Evil.png
A young girl is told that all men are evil by her grandmother, who teaches her to hate them. She later learns witchcraft and begins to murder men.

Green Hornet Fights Crime #38, pg. 5.jpg
Page from a Green Hornet comic depicting an arsonist. Mentioned in the Fulton Bill hearing.

Witchcraft  JVJ  fixed #4 - Page 1.pdf
A child fantasizes about burning things, and grows up to be a pyromaniac.

12 - hangman.jpg
A young boy named George grows up to be a hangman. He eventually dies by getting tangled in a rope like his victims.

horrible herman_converted.pdf
A deformed child develops an advanced intellect and psychic powers, and comes to view other humans as "animals."

I Killed Mary, pg. 5.jpg
A shy teenage boy kills a popular teen girl to make people notice him.
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