sentences:  Although continuously popular in terms of sales, "Crime Does Not Pay" and other crime comics increasingly became the targets of concerned parents, clergy, and other groups who were disturbed by the content of the comics and saw the stories as one of the root causes of a variety of societal ills, including illiteracy and juvenile delinquency.In the wake of books such as Dr. Fredric Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent" and the investigations of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, many publishers, including Lev Gleason, censored their own comics and adopted a strict code administered by the Comics Code Authority.The sanitized "Crime Does Not Pay" that resulted lasted only a few issues before being canceled with issue #147 in 1955.