Policing the Comics

Archive Report

Public Concern Over Impact of the Comics

Passage by the New York legislature shortly before its March adjournment of legislation to ban publication and sale of comic books which tend to incite minors to crime or violence again directs attention to a subject that has worried American parents for years. The bill was recommended by a joint committee which for two years had studied the effects of comic books on youth; it was accepted by the Senate and Assembly by almost unanimous votes. If signed by Gov. Dewey and upheld by the courts,1 the new legislation will have wide effects because New York is the publishing center of the comic book industry.

Possibilities of congressional attention to the comics are indicated by a resolution introduced by ...

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