"Comic Book Confidential" Documentary Clip
Comic Books
A clip from the 1988 film "Comic Book Confidential." The video features an interview with Dr. Fredric Wertham in which he condemns comics for corrupting children
Ron Mann (director)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L7tHhnDw8s&feature=youtu.be
ViPlusGonzoArcade<br />published via YouTube.com
16 July 2011
Don Haig, Martin Harbury, and Charles Lippincott (producers); Ron Mann and Charles Lippincott (writers)
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Seduction of the Innocent
Books
U.K. dust jacket of Dr. Frederic Wertham's highly influential study linking juvenile delinquency and comic book reading.
Wertham, Frederic (writer)
London: Museum Press, Ltd
1954
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Book Cover
House of Commons Debates - June 8th, 1948
Legal Material
A record of the discussions held by the House of Commons in 1948 regarding the distribution of comics in Canada. Fulton argues that there is a link between delinquent behavior in children and several comic titles.
http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2004_05/1?r=0&s=1
Dominion of Canada Official Report of the Debates House of Commons
4 June 1948
Hansard, Public Domain
PDF
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Homer Price
Illustrations
Illustration from one of the Homer Price books, which depicts a group of boys in a malt shop/convenience store, looking at comic books.
McCloskey, Robert (writer)
http://childrenslit.library.ryerson.ca/items/show/7750
The Viking Press
1966
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Book illustration
Confidential File: Horror Comic Books!
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A report by Paul Coates for "Confidential File" in 1955, regarding the relationship between juvenile delinquency
and comics, and formation of the Comics Code.
Paul Coates (reporter); Jim Peck (producer);. Irvin Kershner (director)
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Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency: Interim Report of Committee on Judiciary - March 14th, 1955
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Deals with the findings of the Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency's exploration into the impact of mass media on youth and their behaviour.
http://www.thecomicbooks.com/1955senateinterim.html
US Library of Congress
14 March 1955
Harley M. Kilgore (Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary) and Estes Kefauver (Chariman of the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the US)
Library of Congress
PDF
Report
Juvenile Delinquency (Comic Books): Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency off the Committee of the Judiciary United States Senate - April 22nd to June 4th, 1954
Legal material
Transcripts of the Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Juvenile delinquency, held between April 22 and June 4, 1954.
https://archive.org/details/juveniledelinque54unit
United States Government Printing Office
22 April - 4 June 1954
William Lagner (Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary) and Robert C. Hendrickson (Chairman of the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the US)
Public Domain (Boston Public Library)
PDF
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Report of the Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials - December 31st, 1952
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Report on the findings of the Committee into pornographic materials (literary, photography, and illustrations).
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3971443;view=2up;seq=4
Government Printing Office
31 December 1952
E.C. Gathings
Hathi Trust Digital Library
PDF
Report
Statutes Chapter 13 - 1949
Legal material
Outlines the 1949 amendment to the Canadian Criminal Code, addressing the publication and distribution of obscene and offensive material.
Canadian Statutes Chapter 15
1949
PDF
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Senate of Canada Debates - December 7th, 1949
Legal material
Third reading of Bill No. 10.
http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_SOC2101_01/1?r=0&s=1
Library of Parliament
7 December 1949
ed. H. H. Emerson
Public Domain
PDF
Hansard