A Crisis of Innocence

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True Comics #2, pg. 67.jpg
Advertisement directed at children for a volume of books in "The What-Every-Child-Should-Know Library."

Crime and Punishment #8, pg. 6.jpg
Reader's forum page with a running theme that Crime and Punishment has been a positive educational force in the life of children.

Hutchinson - An Experiement in the use of Comics as Instructional Material.pdf
Presents the results of an experiment to test whether comics could significantly contribute to the teaching of reading and writing skills. This article also provides suggestions of specific comics that can be studied at different grade levels.

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Loeb makes the claim that the 'crime' genre of comic books is finally giving way to 'love' books instead.

TodaysHealth.pdf
Details the results of a comics questionnaire given to over 1800 children, 235 of which having been classified as delinquents.

As a Child Readeth - Rolseth.pdf
A high school teacher contests the idea that reading material influences a child's development.

Orsborn - Assessing Menace Values.pdf
A 9th Grade panel discusses the merits and shortfalls of comic books. They list 10 points about comics, tv, and radio that could be helpful because they were conceived by young people.

Tonsor - Atomic Age or Comic Age.pdf
Tonsor explains that educators and parents need to do more to counteract the bad influence of comic books and pulp magazines on their children. He provides various suggestions.

True Comics #2, pg. 23.jpg
Advertisement and order form for novels directed at boys and girls.

True Comics #2, pg. 22.jpg
Advertisement and order form for novels directed at boys and girls.
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