A Crisis of Innocence

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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.

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

Crime SuspensStories #22, cover.tiff
Cover depicting a man holding an axe and a woman's severed head. Defended by Bill Gaines at the senate subcommittee hearing.

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.

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.
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