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This Is Your Page: Speak Up!
Published letters to the editor. Includes a letter from a Filipino reader.
This Is Your Page: Speak Up!
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.
The Dirt & Trash That Kids Are Reading: And What Can Be Done About It
Alerts parents to distasteful literature: comics, romance magazines, and war novels. The article notes the quality of children's literature and means to encourage parents to divert their children from reading 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 Case Against Comics
Reprints John Mason Brown and Al Capp's opening statements from their "America's Town Meeting of the Air" radio session, in which they debate why comics are a problem.
Stick-In-The-Mud - Fight Against Crime #19
A boy willingly leads his murderous stepmother to die in quicksand.
Some Questions and Answers for Teachers and Parents
Frank provides brief summaries of the various arguments for and against comic books.
Sharing Between the Shears
Utilizes statistics to argue that children are becoming more violent. Saunders claims that: when a parent hands their child a crime comic, they are allowing them to do as they see in the story.
Publisher to Drop Crime and Horror "comic" books
Announces that Entertaining Comics is dropping 5 of their popular crime and horror comic series due to a drop in sales brought on by the backlash of anti-comic organizations.
Psychologic Aspects of Pediatrics: The Comics
Bakwin takes a positive stance on the value of comic books, both in terms of their educational potential and their escapism.