A Crisis of Innocence

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Andersen - A Study of Leisure-Time Reading.pdf
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…

Adventures Into The Unknown #14 (ACG - Dec 1950), pg. 29.jpg
Advertisement page with a war comic and and a bracelet directly marketed to boys and girls.

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Advertisement and order form for novels directed at boys and girls.

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

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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.

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Claims that the burning of comic books could actually make children more inclined to read the very books that are being burned.

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Cover and illustrations of a book featuring stylized portrayals of childhood innocence typical of the period.

Baldur Gazette, February 22 1951.jpg
Report regarding an 11 year old girl strangling herself to death trying to imitate the cover of a horror comic. This article is from Nova Scotia.

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

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Story features Maggie in depictions of innocence, surrounded by animals and nature.
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