RepositoryUniversity Archives and Special Collections Centre
Reference NumberMB/2/4/1
TitlePress cuttings, articles and photocopied reports
DescriptionComprising photocopied press cuttings of the campaign against horror comics, international action against comics, the Women's Assembly, article in The School Librarian about comic books and George H Pumphrey, Wolcott Gibb's review of F Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, photocopies of published references and discussions of The Orphan [this comic strip was reprinted in the UK in The Haunt of Fears] including Interim Report of the US Senate Subcommittee to investigate Juvenile Deliquency. Some records are annotated.
Date1949-[1990s]
CreatorBarker, Martin
TermComics
Censorship
Children (age group)
Reading
Extent2 boxes
LevelFile
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DS/UK/560Comics Campaign Council; May 1953-1956; CampaignersMay 1953-1956
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