A notable event in the history of the American comic book came with the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's criticisms of the medium in his book Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), which prompted the American Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency to investigate comic books.

When the Comics Code was formed in 1954 in reaction to Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, Dell again refused to join and instead began publishing in its comics a " Pledge to Parents " that promised their editorial process " eliminates, rather than regulates, objectional material " and concluded with the now classic credo " Dell Comics Are Good Comics.

By then, Wertham's efforts had led to a Congressional investigation into the comics industry, and publishers formed the self-censoring Comics Code Authority in the fall of 1954.

Underground ( and Alternative ) Comics or Comix were born both out of the general 1960s counter-culture, and as a part reaction to the Comics code-induced censorship of all mainstream comics inspired by the hysteria surrounding Dr Wertham's seminal book Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), which was interpreted as labelling comics partially or wholly responsible for juvenile delinquency:

In response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the " Comics Code " in the same year.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

* 1954 – Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor

* 1954 – Peter Laird, American comic book artist

Greenberg is widely known for his development of a new classification system for the languages of Africa, which he published as a series of articles in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology from 1949 to 1954 ( reprinted together as a book in 1955 ).

A camera was used to illustrate Jean Rouch's subsequent book " Le Niger En Pirogue " ( Fernand Nathan, 1954 ), as well as Jean Sauvy ’ s “ Descente du Niger ” ( L ' Harmattan 2001 ).

* 1954 – Jan Duursema, American comic book artist

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

* Gopal Chandra Kanungo illustrated and translated the book into Oriya in 1954.

Sondheim wrote a book of annotations of his lyrics titled Finishing the Hat ( 2010 ), a collection of his lyrics " from productions dating 1954 – 1981.

* Saturday Night ( 1954, though unproduced until 1997 ) ( book by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein )

The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline.

The Magician's Nephew, the penultimate book to be published, but the last to be written, was completed in 1954.

Wright's book on his journey, Black Power, was published in in 1954 ; its London publisher was Padmore's -- Dennis Dobson.

In 1954 Gerald Gardner published a book, Witchcraft Today, in which he claimed to reveal the existence of a witch-cult that dated back to pre-Christian Europe.

Although, they are now much less well known than Population Bomb, they inspired many works such as the original Population Bomb pamphlet by Hugh Everett Moore in 1954 that inspired the name of Ehrlich's book, as well as some of the original societies concerned with population and environmental matters.

It should also be noted that on March 20, 1954, a cartoon was published in The New Yorker depicting the ( Addams125 of the book The World of Chas Addams ) family at rest in the den with two hands coming out of the record player changing the records.

* Homebodies ( book ) ( 1954 ) fourth anthology of drawings ( Simon & Schuster )

* Francis Donkin Bedford ( 1864 – 1954 ), an English book illustrator

However, Slovik's execution was the basis for a 1954 book by William Bradford Huie.

Twiss's book became the basis for the popular 1954 MGM film of the same name, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.

Western Publications produced a comic book about Tweety and Sylvester entitled Tweety and Sylvester, first in Dell Comics Four Color series # 406, 489, and 524, then in their own title from Dell Comics (# 4-37, 1954 – 62 ), then later from Gold Key Comics (# 1-102, 1963 – 72 ).

* In addition to two Prince Valiant phonograph records ( released in 1947 and 1968 ) and three coloring books, Treasure Books published a small 1954 children's book with Foster art in color.

Homosexual interpretations have been part of the academic study of Batman since psychologist Fredric Wertham asserted in his Seduction of the Innocent in 1954 that " Batman stories are psychologically homosexual.

His best-known book was Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), which purported that comic books are dangerous to children.

* 1954: Seduction of the Innocent.

The shorts were intended to satirize suggestions that early Batman comics implied a homosexual relationship between the eponymous title character and his sidekick Robin, a charge most infamously leveled by Fredric Wertham in his 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent.

Seduction of the Innocent is a book by German-American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency.

In 1954, Fredric Wertham published Seduction of the Innocent, a book in which he asserted that comics were inciting children to violence.

Baker's cover for Phantom Lady # 17 ( Apr, 1949 ) was reproduced in Seduction of the Innocent, the 1954 book by Dr. Fredric Wertham denouncing what he saw as the morally corrupting effect of comics on children.

First US printing of Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), by Dr. Fredric Wertham.

In Innocent Blood in several scenes, Phantom of the Rue Morgue ( from 1954 ) is showing on the television during the morgue scenes ( with Macielli ).

During the decade previous to the song's inception in 1968, waving a Puerto Rican flag in public was considered taboo in the island ( during a brief period in the early 1950s, which coincided with the Jayuya Uprising and the United States Capitol shooting incident of 1954 it was actually outlawed ).

Her years at the university, 1950 – 1954, coincided with some of the harshest assault made on art by the Soviet leadership.

But with the renewal of interference in 1954 ( as with its beginning in 1835 ), the improvement was impaired.

The Commission shall complete its affairs in connection with settlement of United States-Yugoslav claims arising under the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948 not later than December 31, 1954::

Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.

His best years were 1954 when he hit with 41 homers and '55 when he belted 51 home runs, drove in 127 and stole 24 bases.

Since 1954 when an organ instrumental of " New Britain " became a bestseller, " Amazing Grace " has been associated with funerals and memorial services.

Maillol served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal ( 1919 – 1954 ) a grant awarded to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

In addition to creating Li ' l Abner, Capp also co-created two other newspaper strips: Abbie an ' Slats with magazine illustrator Raeburn van Buren in 1937, and Long Sam with cartoonist Bob Lubbers in 1954, as well as the Sunday " topper " strips Washable Jones, Small Fry ( aka Small Change ), and Advice fo ' Chillun.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

After a protracted development cycle the initial AAM-N-2 Sparrow entered limited operational service in 1954 with specially modified Skyknights all weather carrier night fighters.

Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

After starting the 1954 campaign with a two-game split against the Tigers in Detroit, the Orioles returned to Baltimore on April 15 to a welcoming parade that wound through the streets of downtown, with an estimated 350, 000 spectators lining the route.

The station has previously carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978 ; in the first four seasons, WJZ-TV shared coverage with WMAR-TV and WBAL-TV.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

In 1954, they collaborated again on His Majesty O ' Keefe, with Lancaster acting and Hecht producing.

Blue Steel was the result of a Ministry of Supply memorandum from 5 November 1954 that predicted that by 1960 Soviet air defences would make it prohibitively dangerous for V bombers to attack with nuclear gravity bombs.