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Local Distributors Reject Crime Books: Want "Cleaner" Pocket Editions
Looks at the way tougher laws about the production and distribution of comics has caused for distributors to turn their attention to obscene pocket books.
Juvenile Delinquency: Letter To the Editor
A letter from a child to the editor of The Washington Post. The child condemns adults for being delinquents themselves.
Juvenile Delinquency Seen on Increase: Quaker Official Blames New Comic Books
Among other topics, discusses Edgar Bromberger's reports on the necessity for psychiatric consultation in hospitals.
Junior Has a Craving
A mother investigates the reading habits of her eight year-old son.
Inquiry Demands Purge of 'Comics': Senators Declare Publishers Must Eliminate Pictures of Horror, Degeneracy
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.
Horror in the Nursery
Presents the first publication of Fredric Wertham's findings on comics.
Horror Comics
Outlines the fact that horror comics seem to actually be geared towards children through the advertisements being used in them. The article also references some of the attempts at censorship that were taking place in England and Scotland at the time.…
Crime, Horror Comic Book Cleanup Demanded by Delinquency Probers: Senators Hit Comic Books
Discusses the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommitee's worries about post-war crime comic books.
Cover - Voodoo #14
Comic cover portraying a skeleton judging a beauty pageant.
Cover - Speed Comics #35
Comic cover indicted by the Southtown Economist as too violent and sexualized.