The Case of the Missing Parliamentary Comics

Just a few days ago, Alex made a post involving the infamous Fredric Wertham. As an inveterate comics reader from way back, I long knew of Wertham's crusade to ban comics. But I did not realize that the UK had undergone the same crusade.

Apparently, the offending material proved to be too attractive to remain on exhibit.

Source: The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina) 22 Apr 1955, Fri Page 1

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Posted By: Paul - Mon May 02, 2022
Category: Government | Comics | 1950s

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For an overview of the moral panic in Britain, see Martin Barker, A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (Pluto Press, 1984).

Also worth checking out is the 1952 British pamphlet , "The Lure of the Comics," at https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=79287&comicpage;=&b=i

Posted by Brian Chapman on 05/02/22 at 10:53 AM

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