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Comics, TV, and Your Child

Albert E. Kahn

comic booksThis essay from the Meanjin archives was first published in Volume 3 Issue 1 1954.

‘The comic book industry,’ reported a New York State Legislature study in 1952, ‘has, since the termination of World War II, achieved the greatest volume of circulation of any type of book or magazine that this country has ever known.’

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