A Crisis of Innocence

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Cover of "Crime Does Not Pay" issue 36, depicting bloody, lawless mayhem.

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Comic cover portraying an anatomy professor placing his wife's body in the freezer, among his other dissection specimens.

Lawbreakers #6 (Charlton - Apr:May 1952).jpg
Comic cover depicting a man shooting a prison guard and helping a prisoner escape.

Weird Terror #7 (Comic Media - Sept 1953).jpg
Comic cover depicting a killer cremating a body.

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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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Outlines a double murder that took place in Talladega, Alabama in which a man killed his wife and her friend. It is said in the article that the murderer read a crime comic book shortly before the murder.

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Discusses the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommitee's worries about post-war crime comic books.

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A young boy named George grows up to be a hangman. He eventually dies by getting tangled in a rope like his victims.

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A shy teenage boy kills a popular teen girl to make people notice him.

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Senators state that it is not the government's job to deal with horror comics, but rather it is the duty of comic book publishers to clean up their work.
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