The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Special Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was established in April 1953 to investigate the causes of what appeared to be an increased amount of criminal activity by teenagers, and to determine what steps the Federal Government might take to combat this trend.
The Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary held hearings on the effect of comic books on young people on April 21–22, and June 4, 1954. Entered into evidence as an exhibit during the hearings were findings from the Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books in Cincinnati, Ohio. This group established a four-level rating system for comic books – no objection, some objection, objectionable, and very-objectionable.
