Jason Barnosky, “The Violent Years: Responses to Juvenile Crime in the 1950s,” Polity 28 (July 2006): 314–44 (available through JSTOR).

Bart Beaty, Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005). This book is an extensive discussion of the 1950s panic over juvenile delinquency and exploration of the various approaches proposed to curb youth crime. It especially focuses on federal agencies that studied the issue.

James Gilbert, Cycle of Outrage: America’s Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986). This is a broad discussion of the groups that entered into the discussion of juvenile delinquency in the 1950s with special attention paid to Fredric Wertham and the Senate delinquency hearings.

Bradford W. Wright, Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). This book provides an interesting and extensive history of the rise and decline of the comic book industry in America and its impact on the development of modern youth culture. Included are a number of black-and-white reproductions of comic book panels.

The audio recording of William Gaines’s and Fredric Wertham’s testimonies before the Senate subcommittee is available online here.