A Crisis of Innocence

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Portage La Prairie Leader April 24 1952 crop.jpg
Looks to schools and parents as being the ones that must take control of a child's reading habits, so as to instill in them a want to read books over comics.

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Discusses a government decision to lift the ban on the importation of comic books from the United States. Outlines the anxieties present in censors about the amount of questionable comic book material that will soon be imported into Canada.

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Report on a radio forum on comics and juvenile delinquency. Included a principal, psychiatrist, librarian, PTA member, and dean of the state teacher's college.

Forum Finds Good and Bad.pdf
Features the opinions of two psychologists, and a policeman, who have been studying the effects of comic books on children.

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Fulton demands that the term "obscene" be better defined in legislation so that laws about the publication and distribution of such books can properly enforced.

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Discusses Fulton's attempt to pass a bill that would see those involved in the production of comics being fined up to $10,000 for doing so. The bill did not pass.

Horror Comics (BMJ 1954).pdf
Outlines the fact that horror comics seem to actually be geared towards children through the advertisements being used in them. The article also references some of the attempts at censorship that were taking place in England and Scotland at the time.…

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Short snippet that reads: "New Delhi, June 7 - India today announced she has banned the importation of horror comics."

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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.

Smith - Horror comics offer lessons.pdf
A list of positive things that come from horror comics.
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