I believe that P. T. A’s all over the country could unite to have these comics banned . . . we have laws that prohibit selling poison, why can’t we prohibit these people from selling poison to our children’s minds?
Third, reading all these lurid, highly colored comics ruins a child’s appetite for good books as the better literature sounds too tame after this highly seasoned diet.
Poisoning our Children’s Minds 1953
Mrs. Genovar wrote this letter in support of banning “these lurid, highly colored comics”.
