A Crisis of Innocence

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Trojan Crime Mysteries #12.jpg
Comic cover depicting a painting coming to life to protect a woman from being murdered.

Murder Incorporated #1 (Fox - Jan 1948).jpg
Comic cover featuring a woman shooting a man at a card table.

Lev Gleason Crime and Punishment #70.jpg
Comic cover featuring men robbing an armoured car.

Lawbreakers #6 (Charlton - Apr:May 1952).jpg
Comic cover depicting a man shooting a prison guard and helping a prisoner escape.

Speed Comics #35, cover.jpg
Comic cover indicted by the Southtown Economist as too violent and sexualized.

War on the Streets.jpg
Portrait of a juvenile delinquent. Locates the problem of juvenile delinquency in physical environment, poverty, and family life.

I Killed Mary, pg. 5.jpg
A shy teenage boy kills a popular teen girl to make people notice him.

Lev Gleason Crime Does Not Pay #131.jpg
Comic cover portraying two female criminals about to run over a policeman.

Gettysburg Times September 13 1955.pdf
Outlines a bill in Pennsylvania, that 11 female members of commerce were hoping to have passed, that would see the publication and distribution of comics to those under the age of 18 as a criminal offence. In breaking this law the offender would be…

Port Arthur News January 3 1943 crop.jpg
A boy accidentally shoots his brother, instantly killing him. It is noted that after the killing, the boy goes about burning the comic book that his brother had been reading.
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