Ironic - this balderdash printed as a pamphlet ironically published by a company who would later publish comic books.
By crashryan
Can anyone identify the newspaper strip denounced on our page 7 (pamphlet page 10)? It sounds like a Buck Ryan episode, but this was America in 1944 so that ain't it. Could Lynn be talking about Dick Tracy, but describing the actions of one of the villains rather than "the hero?" Tracy was a straight arrow and never went clubbing while DT villains got a lot of solo screen time in the strip. It'd be easy for an uninitiated reader to think Flat Top & co. were the stars. But I can't think of a Tracy character who'd fit the profile of the adulterous landlady with the juvenile delinquent brother. Is it one of the cartoonier strips? I don't know them as well as the adventure strips. I must know! It's the only way to silence my algolagniacal urges.
By The Australian Panther
well! I'm glad this is here. I don't like censorship of any kind, and its good to have it here so we have the opportunity to discuss it.
All statements of opinion, backed up by no references. Which is suspicious in itself.
Which comic is (she?) describing on page 2? Never seen anything like that.
You could go through this page by page and refute it.
"The American association of University women" - Wonder what they are up to today?
'Children had read 915 books and 2370 comic magazines' And this is a problem? Most young people today, no, not all - don't read books at all. [my computer engineer nephew, refuses to. ['refer me to a video or a podcast' ]
Newsweek, quoted here, speaks of 'The War-developed soldier market' [And I'm sure violent comics corrupted those guys] but the article doesn't factor that in at all.
By these standards, Walt Disney today is a disreputable and corrupting influence on Children and young people.
Hmm, Wait a sec?
By neilm
The really ironic thing to me is that three years later these guys published the one shot Is This Tomorrow (it's on this archive). Like the horror comics, this was designed to frighten the kids, albeit in a different way.
By K1ngcat
This kind of crusading codswallop only makes me more determined to embrace my comic-reading, juvenile delinquent self! It's perfectly plain to me that my algolagniacal urges were caused not by reading comics, but by five years as a pupil in an English Public School! Long live the funny papers and CB+
By MattHawes
Thanks for sharing such important historical documents relating to the comic book medium.
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