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The Fight Against Horror Comics
A look at the way that other parts of the world were also trying to ban horror comics.
The Evil of Comic Books
Citing a new Toronto Board of Education report, this article examines the idea that comic books do not cause juvenile delinquency. Tumpane instead claims the reading of comic books perpetuates useless knowledge when one could instead be reading…
The Dirt & Trash That Kids Are Reading: And What Can Be Done About It
Alerts parents to distasteful literature: comics, romance magazines, and war novels. The article notes the quality of children's literature and means to encourage parents to divert their children from reading comics.
The Delinquents: Censorship and Youth Culture in Recent U.S. History
A contemporary analysis of censorship and the fears of youth rebellion in the 1950s.
The Comics War
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 Comics as a Social Force
Gruenberg argues that people often feared innovation in technological and mediums of expression, and cites this the reason for the criticism against comics.
The Comics and Their Appeal to the Youth of Today
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.
The Comics and Delinquency: Cause or Scapegoat
A rebuttal to Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. Thrasher criticizes Wertham's methods, and and suggests that he is projecting social frustrations upon comics.
The Case Against Comics: A Review of The Seduction of the Innocent
Muhlen's review of The Seduction of the Innocent. He criticizes the effectiveness of Wertham's book as being a catalyst for change.
The Case Against Comics
Reprints John Mason Brown and Al Capp's opening statements from their "America's Town Meeting of the Air" radio session, in which they debate why comics are a problem.