Education: Comic Culture

U.S. readers—or whatever you call them—now buy nearly a quarter-billion comic books a year. The avid addicts are not just kids, either; they include an estimated one out of every five U.S. grownups. At Army post exchanges, comic books outsell LIFE, Reader's Digest and Satevepost combined—by ten to one.

At a press conference last week Eleanor Roosevelt, like thousands of other parents and teachers, viewed this phenomenon with alarm. The Journal of Educational Sociology devotes an entire issue to calm examination of it, offers panicky parents and teachers some solid reassurance.

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