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Un-Comical
Comic Books
Comic books, of all things, have caused quite a stir recently in some congressional and publishing circles.
The word “comic” is used loosely, of course. Comic books that are the concern of the Senate Judiciary sub-committee are far from the Mutt and Jeff type of humor.
These particular "comic” books, concern crime, horror, lust and, brutality. They have come to be labeled “horror” comics.
The committee’s investigation has centered largely in New York, where most of the horror comics are published. The reason for the investigation is the possibility that such comic books may have a harmful effect on children.Whether
they do or not has not been clearly indicated-, but it is pretty well agreed ' that they are not doing any good.
Richard Clendenen, the Senate Judiciary subcommittee’s staff director, testified that the reading of crime and horror comics will not make a well adjusted and well socialized child “go out and commit a crime,” but the disturbed child “may react” to the material.
Dr. Harris Peck, director of the hureaurrofr mental healthr servicer for the Domestic Relations court, New York, agreed with this view.
But Dr. Frederick Wertham,
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