The truth about comic books

The truth about comic books

The truth about comics With this tasty title over a drawing of a spider's web adorns this disturbing 8-page American booklet, which I gather was published in the early to mid-1950s and warns of the dangers of comic books. This scary tale begins by saying

Comics of the Spanish Civil War, Children and Propaganda 1936-1939

Comics of the Spanish Civil War, Children and Propaganda 1936-1939

Note the "subliminal" relationship between "red" and murderer as children's reading. Some images of Spanish Civil War comics from the exhibition, Children and Propaganda 1936-1939. Publications for children that had no sex but did call for violence at the top of their voices, including evangelism.