Monday, June 29, 2015

Horror in the National Archives!

There's some fascinating revelations about the 1950s British anti-comics crusade over on the Down the Tubes blog today. No point in me reiterating it, so take a look for yourselves here:
http://downthetubes.net/?p=23475

You may remember that a few years ago I found some news items about the campaign that had appeared in the Daily Mirror in 1954. If you've never seen them they're hilarious in their paranoia, with the Bishop of Coventry comparing comics to Satan! Click on this link:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/1954-year-britain-got-horrors-over.html  

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