COMICS READ BY ADULTS
AUCIiLAND BOOKSELLERS’ EXPERIENCE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 21. More adults than children are today reading cheap comics'and pulp magazines according to several Auckland booksellers. They were, commenting on a speech by Mr H. Binsted, secretary-organiser of the' Auckland Metropolitan Youth Service, in which he said: “A disturbing number of adolescents read escapist and salacibus magazines.” The booksellers said: “The demand for many comics far exceeds the supply and seems to be growing. While the dollar crisis has caused American crime, love and Western magazines to disappear from New Zealand bookshops, their place has been taken, by ‘Americanised’ Australian and locallyplinted pulp magazines .More men than women read comics.” One bookseller thought that teachers could do much to help improve the public’s literary taste. Others agreed that until the standard of adult reading improved, young people would not grow less fond of low-grade magazines.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 110, 22 February 1950, Page 6
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146COMICS READ BY ADULTS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 110, 22 February 1950, Page 6
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