| Code | DS/UK/560 |
| Person Name | Comics Campaign Council; May 1953-1956; Campaigners |
| Corporate Name | Comics Campaign Council |
| Dates | May 1953-1956 |
| Dates and Places | May 1953 meeting at Beaver Hall, London of the National Council for the Defence of Children, attended by members of London Federation of Parent-Teachers Associations and the public, resulted in the founding of the Comics Campaign Council (CCC)
May-December 1954 a panel set up by Phyllis M Pickard for the CCC, met seven times and evaluated comics
8 November 1954 meeting between CCC and Labour MP's at the House of Commons
1955 Pickard issues British Comics- An appraisal
1956 Comics to classic conference |
| Activity | Campaigning, organising meetings, conferences, panels and exhibitions about the dangers of horror comics to children. |
| Relationships | National Council for the Defence of Children, Council for Children's Welfare, British Communist Party, National Union of Teachers |
| Source | Barker, Martin. 1984. A Haunt of Fears. Pluto Press.
Barker, Martin. 1992. A Haunt of Fears. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
Barker, Martin. 1989. Comics: ideology, power and the critics. Manchester University Press.
Lent, John A. 1999. Pulp Demons : International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign. Madison N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London.
Gravett, Paul. 2014. “Comic Books: A Freakish Kind of Writing.” The Guardian. The Guardian. May 2, 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/comic-books-freakish-writing.
Yudkin et al. 1969. A Tribute to Simon Yudkin. The Council for Children's Welfare. |
| RefNo | Title |
| MB | Martin Barker Archive |
| MB/2 | Horror Comics and A Haunt of Fears |
| MB/2/1 | Comic books |
| MB/2/2 | Reports, bulletins, programmes, notes and leaflets about horror comics |
| MB/2/3 | Correspondence |
| MB/2/5 | Books |
| MB/2/2/3 | 'Programme for From Comics to Classics Conference on Children's Reading, Church House, Westminster' |
| MB/2/2/4 | 'British Comics an appraisal edited by Miss P.M. Pickard Comics Campaign Council' |
| MB/2/2/7 | Comments by members of the Comics Campaign Council's panel on Superman 46 (Australian edition) and Dandy 22 |
| MB/2/2/9 | 'The Comics Campaign Bulletin no 4' |
| MB/2/2/10 | 'The Comics Campaign Bulletin no 3' |
| MB/2/2/11 | 'The Comics Campaign Bulletin no 2' |
| MB/2/2/15 | 'The Comics Campaign Bulletin no 1' |
| MB/2/2/17 | 'Comics and your children by George H Pumphrey' |
| MB/2/2/23 | 'A tribute to Simon Yudkin' |
| MB/2/3/2 | Photocopy of a letter from Frederic Wertham to Comics Campaign Bulletin |
| MB/2/3/7 | Letter to George H Pumphrey from Jesse L Murrell, Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books, Cincinnati, Ohio |