A Crisis of Innocence

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Vampires, Don't Make Me Laugh.pdf
As she grows up, a girl comes to realize that she is tainted by the disease of vampirism.

7 - underworldCrime.jpg
Cover of "Underworld Crime" issue 7, depicting two criminals threatening a bound woman.

North Adams Transcript, February 3 1949.jpg
Announces the establishment of a citizens committee to supervise comics sales and distribution in New Orleans. The committee attributes criminal behavior to parents rather than comic books.

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.

the closet_converted.pdf
An aunt keeps her niece undernourished and trapped in a closet. The girl tricks her aunt into going into the closet and traps her there instead.

Portage La Prairie Leader April 24 1952 crop.jpg
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.

Lethbridge Herald February 11 1949 crop.jpg
Outlines a double murder that took place in Talladega, Alabama in which a man killed his wife and her friend. It is said in the article that the murderer read a crime comic book shortly before the murder.

Ace Web of Mystery #10.jpg
Comic cover featuring a woman startled by her monstrous appearance in a mirror.

Ajax-Farrell Voodoo #14.jpg
Comic cover portraying a skeleton judging a beauty pageant.

Tomb of Terror #11 (Harvey - Sept 1953).jpg
Comic cover featuring a woman frightened by a number of disembodied heads.
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