A Crisis of Innocence

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Comic Books, A Teacher's Analysis - Burton.pdf
Burton considers how educators can encourage their students to read books other than comics by utilizing "transition books" that carry similar appeal as comics.

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.

Cohen - The Delinquents, Censorship and Youth Culture in Recent US History.pdf
A contemporary analysis of censorship and the fears of youth rebellion in the 1950s.

Frank - Some Questions and Answers for Teachers and Parents.pdf
Frank provides brief summaries of the various arguments for and against comic books.

Gruenberg - The Comics as a Social Force.pdf
Gruenberg argues that people often feared innovation in technological and mediums of expression, and cites this the reason for the criticism against comics.

Hutchinson - An Experiement in the use of Comics as Instructional Material.pdf
Presents the results of an experiment to test whether comics could significantly contribute to the teaching of reading and writing skills. This article also provides suggestions of specific comics that can be studied at different grade levels.

Kinneman - The Comics and Their Appeal to the Youth of Today.pdf
Kinneman discusses the results of a questionnaire she asked students to fill out. Some of the recorded student responses echo ideas held by anti-comic journalists and psychiatrists.

Tovatt, Jewtt, and Wolfe - This World of English.pdf
Provides suggestions as to how high school English teachers can more effectively teach reading and writing skills to their students. Briefly discusses Wertham and comics books, but mentions that Wertham has been discredited by other academics.

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…

Army To Limit Sale of Comics crop.jpg
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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