Set Description
In 1949 the State of New York formed a legislative committee to study the publication of comics. The committee issued a series of reports beginning in 1950 and carrying through 1957. The 1951 report and the 1954 report contained illustrative sections depicting comics that the committee found objectionable.
The 1951 report contained an appendix with comic panels that were found to be objectionable. The appendix is organized into three groups:
Group 1: Comic panels that represent “brutality, violence and crime”.
Group 2: Comic panels “which depict ways of bodily injury, plans for commission of crime and unlawful breakings”.
Group 3: Comic panels that contain “sexually suggestive cartoons and in some instances semi hidden pornography”.
Set Goals
Collect all the comics referenced in the 1951 New York Legislative Report:
Authentic Police Cases #6 (NY Leg Report page 66, this is also a Seduction of the Innocent book)
Blaze Carson #3 (NY Leg Report page 26)
Challenge of the Unknown #6 (page 48)
Crime Incorporated #2 (page 46)
Crime Must Lose #4 (page 44)
Crimes by Women #14 (pages 49-50)
Crypt of Terror #17 (page 43)
Dagar #15 (page 64)
Exposed #7 (page 59, also a SOTI book)
Gang Busters #3 (page 60, also a SOTI book)
Haunt of Fear #17(3) (page 42, also a SOTI book)
Jungle Comics #98 (page 70-71, also a SOTI book)
Killers #1 (page 68-69, also a SOTI book)
March of Crime #7(1) (page 27)
Marvel Tales #97 (pages 51-52)
Phantom Lady #21 (page 61)
Spectacular Features Magazine #3 (page 47)
Spirit #22 (page 41)
Top Secrets #7 (pages 55-57, also a SOTI book)
Torchy #4 (page 80)
Torchy #5 (pages 81-82)
True Crime Comics #V1#2 (pages33-40, also a SOTI book and Parade of Pleasure)
Wanted Comics #27 (page 45)
Web of Mystery #18 (page 48)
Women Outlaws #1 (page 30, also a SOTI book)
Young Romance #20 (pages 31-32)