A Crisis of Innocence

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Cedar Rapids Gazette October 10 1954 crop.jpg
Full page of small articles that all deal with the problem of horror comics and children.

Oakland Tribune July 18 1948 crop.jpg
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.

Syracuse Post Standard May 13 1951 crop.jpg
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.

Saturday Review The Case Against the Comics.pdf
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.

UN Group Ban crop.jpg
This article discusses the UN's considerations for banning the sale of crime and sex comics worldwide.

Cavanagh - The Comics War.pdf
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.

Collier's Horror in the Nursery.pdf
Presents the first publication of Fredric Wertham's findings on comics.

Gazette Mail November 8 1959 crop.jpg
Deals primarily with newspaper comics, and makes reference to the fact that comic book reading can be greatly beneficial for the young reader.

Juvenile Delinquency Editor.pdf
A letter from a child to the editor of The Washington Post. The child condemns adults for being delinquents themselves.

TodaysHealth.pdf
Details the results of a comics questionnaire given to over 1800 children, 235 of which having been classified as delinquents.
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