Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic John Mason Brown recently called comic books "the marijuana of the nursery." Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham ranked them among the chief "contributing causes of juvenile delinquency." Disgusted by the sex, violence and crime they were peddling, druggists in South Bend refused last week to sell comic books in their stores...
...cleanup campaign of their own. They set up a voluntary association similar to the movies' Johnston office, adopted a code of ethics for comic books, and got ready to name a czar. Among the code's provisions: 1) no "sexy, wanton comics"; 2) no glorifying of crime; 3) no "scenes of sadistic torture"; 4) no "vulgar and obscene language"; 5) no glamorizing of divorce; 6) no religious or race ridicule...
...night of his death, George Polk ate a hearty lobster dinner, perhaps in a waterfront café on dirty Niki Street. A short time later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been...
...Shawnee, Okla., fourth, fifth and sixth-graders were asked what they thought of "crime" comics. The moppets conceded (184 to 111) that the bang-bang strips are harmful, but admitted (297 to 57) that they liked to read them. They were firmly convinced, however (20 to 1) that "smaller children'' shouldn't be allowed to look...
Spoor. In Pittsburgh, Marshall Johnson was sentenced to a term in jail for burglary, after he had left at the scene of he crime 1) his fingerprints, 2) his social security number, 3) a picture of his wife...