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A comic published by Allen Tlardy Associates, boasts, “three full-length horror fales,” The eover shows 2 madman clutching a shotgun dripping blood in one hand and sume llood-dreuched money in the other, A corpse, its face shot away, lies in uv pool of blood in the buckgronnd, One of the stories is about a small hoy whe is eaten hy a monster and another little boy whe is sent te an insane asyluin. mother glory in this mingazine is about u married man who falls in love with the vampire. The vampire kitls his wife then kills him by drinking his blood.

The opening scene in a havk hy Classie Synilicates, Ine., shows the locker rvam of a university cubed “RP. Lb.’ wilh tie fovthall jeam looking like thugs and nlorots, drinking whisky, smoking cigars, and cheating on eXuminations. Tle rest of the story tells how the studious pupils are fools and chat ouly the cheaters, gamblers, focthall piayers, and other dishonest persons, succeed in colluge und the penalty fer losing a foothall gume is dismissal [rom school in disgrace and death at the hands of gamblers and crocks.

Another stury in this book tells about a man who invents a potion to make himself invisible so he could “have fun” by tripping pedestrians, stealing from stoves, and rebbing a bank.

lt contiims another story called The Bull Vhrower, which is pure sex, It is about a lady bull fighter and contains a ruft of double entendres and suggestive pictures.

Horror isn't the only specialty of theee books. Another type of comic book on fhe market is the love story in pictures,

Superior Comic publishes oue which zeutures these stores: 1 Was a Fickup Girl, Desperate Romance, Nisses of Forgiveness, and Together * * * Povever, All have the sume theme of young girls defying their parents and running off with men, All end in marriage, however.

Charlton Comics Group, Inc., publishes a comie houk which datms on its cover, “Thrilling Romances! Exciting! Pulse Quickening! Real Love Staries of Iteal People Told in Dramatie licture Stories, Kevelations You Will Never Forget.”

Then there is the one published by Romantic Love Stories, Ine, The stories include, My Fatal Weakuess, Plames Fed Sly Foolish Ikeart, Pickup Girl, The Curse of Being Misjudged, and My Unuecided Soul.

These ure just a sumple of the hundreds of vooks sold each month in this city through newsstunds and drugstores,

In one drugstore, where the reporter found the worst selection of all, he over- heard the druggist talking to some children in the store, As the reporter leafed throug) the comic buoks, (te druggist was reading a paper and saying:

“It’s terrible. Everyday more people are getting killed or wiurdered,”

Editorial, February 14, 1954

Do you know what your children ure reading? If you lave net made u elieck of their comic books lately, you may be surprised ty tiud that their daily diet ts Gee up of murder, mayhem, lust, sadism, necrophilia, depravity, and just plain ilth,

Some of the comic books that have been dispensed in EHurtford in recent weeks are as foul as anything the human mind can conceive, Patricide, matricide, and évery form of violence and crime are depicted, even to detailed drawings of how to murder : friend by remote control.

it is lard to believe that these products of the gold-jlated sewers af New York are distributed in EHartford through the design of local merehants. No doubt they, like the majority of parents, are nnaware of the literary horrors that are daily poisoning the minds of their child customers. Censorship is not necessary, althongh it might be sulutury if some of these publishers were locked up for foisting obscenity on the publie. Quict words of disapproval from parents are enough to end effectively the torreut of filth that is dafly pouring into the minds of our children.

for supporting evidence read the first of a series of articles hy Irving Kraysow, in the Courant today. These will suggest the appropriate remedies.