THE COMICS WAR.

The article informs that the poor parents perturbed by the profound proclamations of psychiatrists and psychologists concerning the menace to their children from reading the "Comics." They cannot see the harm themselves, in fact the daily comic book session comes as a welcome relief from the children's usual turbulence. There is no need to prove that the comics are popular. This fact is already known. How popular they are is little short of amazing. There is no question but that they are big business today. It is difficult at first to grasp the fact that a reliable source indicates that in 1946 the monthly circulation was 40,000,000. This is especially remarkable when we realize that the first of the modern comic books was published in 1933. It is further estimated that each comic book is read by several people and that 75 per cent of all comic books are purchased by children out of their own funds, an outlay of $300,000 a month or $3,600,000 per year.