A Crisis of Innocence

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True Comics #2, pg. 22.jpg
Advertisement and order form for novels directed at boys and girls.

Adventures Into The Unknown #14 (ACG - Dec 1950), pg. 29.jpg
Advertisement page with a war comic and and a bracelet directly marketed to boys and girls.

the little monster_convertedfromdocx.pdf
An orphaned girl who loves animals is mistreated by her aunt. She wishes for bad things to happen to her aunt, and her wishes start to come true.

the closet_converted.pdf
An aunt keeps her niece undernourished and trapped in a closet. The girl tricks her aunt into going into the closet and traps her there instead.

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A young girl is told that all men are evil by her grandmother, who teaches her to hate them. She later learns witchcraft and begins to murder men.

Baldur Gazette, February 22 1951.jpg
Report regarding an 11 year old girl strangling herself to death trying to imitate the cover of a horror comic. This article is from Nova Scotia.

Criticize B.C. Plan crop.jpg
Claims that the burning of comic books could actually make children more inclined to read the very books that are being burned.

I Killed Mary, pg. 5.jpg
A shy teenage boy kills a popular teen girl to make people notice him.

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Title page depicting a young boy and girl looking out of a window. There is a puppy sitting between the two children and an open book sitting next to them.

Bloody Mary, pg. 10.tiff
Comic book story that depicts an innocent-looking young girl murdering people.
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