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Censorship of Comics Bibliography

Comics and Cartoons before the Batman

Articles:

Books:

Broun & Leech. Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord.

DeGrazia, Edward. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius.

Hess, Stephen, and Northrop, Sandy. Drawn & Quartered: the History of American Political Cartoons, Elliott & Clark Publishing, Montgomery, Alabama, 1996.

Legal Publications:

Committee on Public Information Bulletin for Cartoonists, circa 1918.

Laws:

Post Office Act, ch. 89, section 16, 13 Stat. 504, 507 (1865). Criminalized sending "obscenity" through the mail.

An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use, ch. 258, 17 Stat. 598-99 (1873). Named Anthony Comstock a "special agent" of the Post Office with the power to monitor the mail for obscenity.

1917 Espionage Act

Cases:

Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten, 244 Fed. 535 (S.D.N.Y.1917).

Comics and Cartoons before the Batman

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