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CodeDS/UK/560
Person NameComics Campaign Council; May 1953-1956; Campaigners
Corporate NameComics Campaign Council
DatesMay 1953-1956
Dates and PlacesMay 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
ActivityCampaigning, organising meetings, conferences, panels and exhibitions about the dangers of horror comics to children.
RelationshipsNational Council for the Defence of Children, Council for Children's Welfare, British Communist Party, National Union of Teachers
SourceBarker, 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.
Catalogue
RefNoTitle
MBMartin Barker Archive
MB/2Horror Comics and A Haunt of Fears
MB/2/1Comic books
MB/2/2Reports, bulletins, programmes, notes and leaflets about horror comics
MB/2/3Correspondence
MB/2/5Books
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/2/2/7Comments 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/2/3/2Photocopy of a letter from Frederic Wertham to Comics Campaign Bulletin
MB/2/3/7Letter to George H Pumphrey from Jesse L Murrell, Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books, Cincinnati, Ohio
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