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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... vol. 35 no. 3 September 2011 of Script and Print est. 2005 Script and Print
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A Design for Depravity: Horror Comics and the Challenge of Censorship in Australia, 1950-1986, Kevin Patrick , single work criticism
On the night of Friday 24 September 1954, hundreds of children, armed with rocks and sticks, swarmed between the headstones of a Glasgow cemetery in search of a monster with iron teeth, which had strangled and devoured two little boys - a creature that came to be known as the 'Gorbals Vampire.' There was, of course, no such monster. But once the police had rounded up the children and sent them home, there was little doubt amongst authorities about what ignited such a panic. Michael Scanlan, Glasgow's City Education Officer, singled out American horror comic books as the culprit. 'It is up to the government to ban these comics,' he said. 'We cannot do anything about it, but obviously they caused the scare' (author's abstract).
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Untitled, Andrew Sergeant , single work review
— Review of Australian Book Collectors : Some Noted Australian Book Collectors and​ Collections of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2010 reference ; (p. 180-182)
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