1944: Gabriel Lynn Study on Comic Bookstrello1944

Mr. Lynn claims in analyzing comic books, he studied a total of 92, and in addition to these, more than 1000 newspaper comic strips appearing during the months of August. September and October, 1943. He asserts that he found the so-called "comic" cartoons depicted 216 major crimes, and, In every in-stance, included detail sufficient to afford at least a working knowledge of the technique employed by the criminal or criminals. He also claims a total of 309 minor crimes were depicted such as misdemeanors as defined in the criminal codes of most states, 271 instances of anti-social behavior were identified excluding merely mischievous acts or annoying conduct; 722 physical assaults glorifying brute force depicted with complete detail and an abundance of gore as the after-math: 39 larcenies. showing the exact method of various forms of larceny from shoplifting and pocket-picking to complicated confidence and swindling. A total of 86 sadistic acts were identified; 186 episodes of vulgar behavior, 114 with suggestive art, and 491 with vulgar speech, 194 with gross grammatical abuses, 362 with manufactured words, and 161 showing physical monstrosities, 204 with fantastic situations or actions clearly divorced from any reasonable resemblance to reality, such as men growing 20 pairs of arms and hands and a dozen heads, and 246 with un-American vigilante activities. Mr. Lynn points out that children in increasing numbers are arrested by police and juvenile authorities for the theft of merchandise from retail establishments. These thefts occur in instances where no need or poverty has been indicated.

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