Students Burn Comic Books Launch Drive Prevent Sale
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Describes a group of 600 students burning over 2000 comic books while being led by a 13 year-old boy. The boy's speech is transcribed.
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Medicine Hat Daily News
27 October 1948
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Pupils Burn Comic Books: Auburn Parochial School has Bonfire of Crime-Sex Volumes
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A story about a mass burning of comic books that took place in Auburn New York. The burning took place following a talk that was held by a reverend that saw children wanting to get rid of their comics.
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New York Times
23 December 1948
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Our Children: Parents Well Advised to Censor Publications
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Discusses the need to burn comics since they should not be in the hands of children.
Patri, Angelo (writer)
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The Globe and Mail
29 January 1954
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Horror Comics Go Up In Flames
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An image of Len Wynne, head of Vancouver's Junior Chamber of Commerce, throwing popular horror comics on to a public "pyre" in Vancouver.
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Flames Hit Two Buildings: Children Admit They Started Fire While Burning Comic Books In Home
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Outlines an apartment fire that took place in Hamilton. The children, who allegedly started the fire, claim that they were burning their comic books when the fire got out of hand.
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The Ottawa Citizen
3 December 1956
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Criticize B.C. Plan: Doubt Toronto to Burn Crime, Horror Comics
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Claims that the burning of comic books could actually make children more inclined to read the very books that are being burned.
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The Globe and Mail
12 November 1954
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Comics and Television
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Deals with the child's interest in Television as a new medium for storytelling. Discusses the shift from comics (not approved by parents) to TV (a generally approved medium).
Barclay, Dorothy (writer)
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New York Times
5 March 1950
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Comic Criminals to Burn
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Reports a New Jersey comic book burning, for which local Cub Scouts collected horror comics to be burned. A portable incinerator will be brought in to do the burning.
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New York Times
7 January 1949
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Children to Net Good Books From Fire of Crime Comics
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Discusses a book burning that took place in Vancouver, in which the children received classic books in return for burning up their crime and horror comics.
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The Globe and Mail
11 November 1954
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Catholic Students Burn Up Comic Books
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Discusses the burning of 2000 comic books, as ordered by the Bishop of the Albany Catholic Diocese
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New York Times
11 December 1948
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