A Crisis of Innocence

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Crime and Punishment #35, pg. 38.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a number of young readers.

Crime and Punishment #33, pg. 30.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a number of young readers, including members of a "Junior Police Club."

Crime and Punishment #31, pg. 22.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a number of young readers.

Crime and Punishment #8, pg. 6.jpg
Reader's forum page with a running theme that Crime and Punishment has been a positive educational force in the life of children.

Crime and Punishment #6, pg. 44.jpg
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.

Crime and Punishment #5, pg. 24.jpg
Reader's forum page wherein the editors highlight the wide distribution of their comic and suggest it may have had some impact in the decrease in juvenile crime.

Crime and Punishment #2, pg. 37.jpg
Reader's forum page with letters from mothers. The mothers approve that their children read Crime Does Not Pay.

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.

Syracuse Post Standard May 13 1951 crop.jpg
Explores the New York State Joint Legislative Committee's attempts to censor crime and love comics in 1951. The image features a number of the popular comics of the time laid out on a table.

Oakland Tribune July 18 1948 crop.jpg
Features a scholarly source claiming that distinctions need to be made between good and bad comic books. While Richmond claims there is merit in the "good" ones, the bad ones are causing children to become violent.
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