A Crisis of Innocence

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

my daddy should have listened_convertedfromdocx.pdf
This story is about a young boy who is the son of an acclaimed horror comics author. Young Johnnie befriends a rather odd looking boy who goes by the name of Willie. Johnnie's father is in a slump in with his work and feels that he is unable to…

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Discuses comic censorship. Includes a statement from President Roosevelt insisting parents need to do all that they can in order to protect the innocence of children moving forward.

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Deals with the fact that the only way to get rid of horror and crime comics is to work together to get them away from children.

AmericanJournalOfPsychotherapy1948.pdf
A symposium held by Fredric Wertham with contributions from numerous authors that goes to great lengths to condemn comic books.

AmericanJournalOfPsychotherapy1948.pdf
A comprehensive outline of Dr. Fredric Wertham's work.

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U.K. dust jacket of Dr. Frederic Wertham's highly influential study linking juvenile delinquency and comic book reading.

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A boy willingly leads his murderous stepmother to die in quicksand.

tag...you're it_converted.pdf
A town is terrorized by a vampire, and a husband and wife begin to suspect that the other has been turned. It is revealed that their young son is the vampire.

Case Against Comics.pdf
Muhlen's review of The Seduction of the Innocent. He criticizes the effectiveness of Wertham's book as being a catalyst for change.
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