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Notable events of 1954 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Events and publications

• Publication of Seduction of the Innocent, by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham. The book warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. A minor bestseller, it created alarm in parents and galvanized them to campaign for censorship.
• Publishers All American Comics, Comic Media, Fiction House, Star Publications, and Youthful go out of business.

February

• Hopalong Cassidy, with issue #86, revived by DC Comics, taking over the numbering of the Fawcett Comics series.^[1]

March

• Atlas Comics publishes Lorna, the Jungle Girl #6 (renamed from Lorna, the Jungle Queen)

April

• April 21–22: United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings on the comic book industry.

June

• "Tralla La," a Scrooge McDuck story by Carl Barks, published in Uncle Scrooge #6
• June 4: Further meeting of United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency

September

• Formation of the Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA) and the Comics Code Authority (CCA)
• Atlas Comics publishes Crime Fighters Always Win #11 (renamed from Timely's Crimefighters)
• Roy of the Rovers debuts in Fleetway's Tiger

November

• The Haunt of Fear, with issue #28 (November/December cover date), canceled by EC Comics.

December

• Kodansha publishes Nakayoshi.
• The Vault of Horror, with issue #40 (December 1954/January 1955 cover date), canceled by EC Comics.
• Chamber of Chills, with issue #26, canceled by Harvey Comics.

First issues by title

Archie Comics

• Archie Giant Series

Atlas Comics

• Arrowhead
• Battle Ground
• Girl's Life
• Jungle Action
• Jungle Tales
• Marines in Battle
• Navy Action
• Outlaw Fighters
• Outlaw Kid
• Police Action
• The Ringo Kid Western
• Riot
• Rugged Action
• Semper Fi
• Spy Thrillers
• Western Kid (December)
• Western Outlaws
• Western Thrillers
• Wild

Hulton Press

• Swift

National Comics

• Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen^[2] (October)
• Our Fighting Forces (October)

Toby Press

• With the Marines on the Battlefronts of the World

Initial appearances by character name

Atlas Comics

• Gorilla-Man (Ken Hale) in Men's Adventures #26 (March)
• Gorilla-Man (Arthur Nagan) in Mystery Tales #21 ([September)
• Jann of the Jungle in Jungle Tales #1 (September)
• M-11 in Menace #11 (May)
• Outlaw Kid in The Outlaw Kid #1 (September)
• Ringo Kid in The Ringo Kid Western #1 (August)
• Western Kid in The Western Kid #1 (November)

Dell Comics

• Turok in Four Color Comics #596 (October/November)

Harvey Comics

• Wendy the Good Little Witch in Casper the Friendly Ghost #20 (May)

L. Miller & Son

• Marvelman in Marvelman #25 (3 February)

National Comics

• Angle Man in Wonder Woman #70 (November 1954)
• Crimesmith in World's Finest Comics #68 (January/February)
• Janu the Jungle Boy in Action Comics #191 (April)
• Mysto in Detective Comics #203 (January)
• Space Cabbie in Mystery in Space #21 (August)

Prize Comics

• Fighting American in Fighting American #1 (April/May)

Newspaper strips

• Charlotte Braun in Peanuts (November 30)
• Pig-Pen in Peanuts (July 13)

References