A Crisis of Innocence

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North incites parents and teachers to band together in the fight against comic books.

Hutchinson - An Experiement in the use of Comics as Instructional Material.pdf
Presents the results of an experiment to test whether comics could significantly contribute to the teaching of reading and writing skills. This article also provides suggestions of specific comics that can be studied at different grade levels.

Orsborn - Assessing Menace Values.pdf
A 9th Grade panel discusses the merits and shortfalls of comic books. They list 10 points about comics, tv, and radio that could be helpful because they were conceived by young people.

Tonsor - Atomic Age or Comic Age.pdf
Tonsor explains that educators and parents need to do more to counteract the bad influence of comic books and pulp magazines on their children. He provides various suggestions.

Comic Books, A Teacher's Analysis - Burton.pdf
Burton considers how educators can encourage their students to read books other than comics by utilizing "transition books" that carry similar appeal as comics.

Mitchell - Comic Strips, How Well Can Our Pupils Read Them.pdf
A study of the reading comprehension skills of high school students. Participants were asked to complete reading and vocabulary tests to determine how well they actually understood the text-based content of comics.

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Interview with a teacher, a deaconess, a child welfare expert and a youth regarding comic books. The general consensus is that better reading habits should be taught by teachers and parents.

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Looks to schools and parents as being the ones that must take control of a child's reading habits, so as to instill in them a want to read books over comics.

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Report on a radio forum on comics and juvenile delinquency. Included a principal, psychiatrist, librarian, PTA member, and dean of the state teacher's college.

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Explains a recollection of the effects of crime comics on one 17-year-old boy.
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