A Crisis of Innocence

Browse Items (4 total)

Comics Held No Factor crop.jpg
Utilizes surveys in order to determine that comic books were not actually linked to juvenile delinquency. Rather, poor home life is truly the root cause for delinquency.

Fulton Loses crop.jpg
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.

Winnipegger Fined crop.jpg
Discusses the start of the actual war on comics, in which a Winnipeger named Abe Roher was convicted of selling crime comics and fined $5.

Crime and Punishment #1, pg. 4.jpg
Reader's forum page with a running theme of criminals revealing that reading Crime Does Not Pay showed them the error of their ways.
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2