A Crisis of Innocence

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True Comics #2, pg. 67.jpg
Advertisement directed at children for a volume of books in "The What-Every-Child-Should-Know Library."

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

San Antonio Express And News October 17 1954 crop.jpg
One of many articles that were written by Sigrid Arne on the topic of the backlash against comic books. Looks at how the war on comics was having a profound effect on the popularity of comics.

Publisher to Drop Crime and Horror Comics crop.jpg
Announces that Entertaining Comics is dropping 5 of their popular crime and horror comic series due to a drop in sales brought on by the backlash of anti-comic organizations.

On Comic Books crop.jpg
Claims that comics have no merit because they do not instill a love for the English language, which is instilled by other forms of literature.

Catholic Students Burn Up Comic Books crop.jpg
Discusses the burning of 2000 comic books, as ordered by the Bishop of the Albany Catholic Diocese

Stieg - The 1926 German Law to Protect Youth - Moral Protectionism in a Democracy.pdf
Examines censorship through the lens of German censorship laws, and how they played a role in the Nazi take-over of the country in 1933.

Fulton Writing.pdf
Outlines a number of the concerns that Fulton has about the publication and sale of comic books to children. Fulton expresses his concerns for the long term effects of crime comics on children who are reading them.
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