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What's On Your Mind?
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a number of young readers.
What's On Your Mind?
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a number of young readers, including members of a "Junior Police Club."
What's On Your Mind?
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a number of young readers.
This Is Your Page: Speak Up!
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.
The Comics - There They Stand
Discusses the popularity of comic strips and books, as well as some of the ways they have influenced American culture.
Sex and Crime Featured in 'Comic' Books Sold in City: Syracuse Tour Reveals Variety of Spicy Tales: State Committee Issues Threat of Censorship
Explores the New York State Joint Legislative Committee's attempts to censor crime and love comics in 1951. The image features a number of the popular comics of the time laid out on a table.
Saved From a Life of Crime! - Crime and Punishment #5
Reader's forum page wherein the editors highlight the wide distribution of their comic and suggest it may have had some impact in the decrease in juvenile crime.
Parents' Corner: Time to Suppress Crime Comic Books
Features a scholarly source claiming that distinctions need to be made between good and bad comic books. While Richmond claims there is merit in the "good" ones, the bad ones are causing children to become violent.
On Comic Books
Claims that comics have no merit because they do not instill a love for the English language, which is instilled by other forms of literature.
Mother Knows Best! - Crime and Punishment #2
Reader's forum page with letters from mothers. The mothers approve that their children read Crime Does Not Pay.