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The Comics and Delinquency: Cause or Scapegoat
A rebuttal to Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. Thrasher criticizes Wertham's methods, and and suggests that he is projecting social frustrations upon comics.
What's in the Comics?
Presents the results of examining hundreds of magazines and comic books in order to determine what is in comics that make them so popular with children.
The Psychology of Children's Reading and the Comics
An exploration of fantasy and childhood psychological development.
What Adults Think of Comics as Reading for Children
Presents the results of a survey given to adults about what they thought of comic books.
Action Taken to Control Distribution of Objectionable Comic Books
Briefly outlines the steps that different cities and counties took to ban or limit the sale of objectionable comics.
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…
Comic Books: A Teacher's Analysis
Burton considers how educators can encourage their students to read books other than comics by utilizing "transition books" that carry similar appeal as comics.
The Comics War
Cavanagh proposes to investigate why children like comic books and whether or not they are legitimately harmful to them. He discusses aggression and phantasy, before moving on to psychodynamics.
The Delinquents: Censorship and Youth Culture in Recent U.S. History
A contemporary analysis of censorship and the fears of youth rebellion in the 1950s.
Toward Bigger and Better "Comic Mags" : I Let My Pupils Bring Funny Books to Class
A junior high teacher poses a series of questions to his students regarding their comic book preferences and purchasing habits. Some of their answers are included here.