A Crisis of Innocence

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Discusses the Army putting a stop to crime comics with their troops. Also talks about 1/3 of all comics being crime comics in 1948.

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A review of Wertham's article "The Comics...Very Funny!" Some of Wertham's main points are restated, and the reviewer mentions a recent comic book burning in Chicago.

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Short newspaper clipping about how a Comic Book burning was averted in favour of donating the comic books to the Salvation Army as scrap paper.

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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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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.

Comic Criminals to Burn.pdf
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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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).

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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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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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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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