Anti-Comic Book Bill Pushed By Senate Leader: Supervision In State Would Be Strict
Subject
Newspaper Articles
Description
Outlines a bill that the Senate was attempting to pass, which would place strict laws on the publication of comic books.
Creator
Unknown
Publisher
Dunkirk Evening Observer
Date
13 January 1949
Rights
The Observer
Format
PDF, JPG
Type
Newspaper Article
Bibliographic Citation
"Anti-Comic Books Bill Pushed by Senate Leader; Supervision In State Would be Strict." Dunkirk Evening Observer, 13 January 1949: 1. Web. 12 March 2014.
Outlines the British bill to ban the sale of horror comics to children. Claims that children are highly impressionable, and that in reading comic books children can be corrupted.
Comic Books - The Defense They Offer: Economist Scans Their Claims of High Moral Value
Subject
Newspaper Articles
Description
Article makes note of the fact that comic book publishers are defending their works by claiming that comic books promote a "crime doesn't pay stance," and that comic books promote the building of a good vocabulary.
Creator
Unknown
Publisher
Southtown Economist
Date
15 April 1945
Rights
Daily Southtown
Format
PDF, JPG
Type
Newspaper Article
Bibliographic Citation
"'Comic' Books -- The Defense They Offer: Economist Scans Their Claims of High Moral Value." Southtown Economist [Chicago], 15 April 2014. Web. 14 March 2014.
Lyons, Richard L. "Crime, Horror Comic Book Cleanup Demanded by Delinquency Probers." The Washington Post and Times Herald, 20 February 1955: A1. Web. ProQuest. 26 January 2014.
Outlines the fact that eight provinces backed a proposal made by Canadian Justice Minister Garson, which made it a criminal offence to produce or distribute crime comics.