1954 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.
=== 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 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
=== December ===
* Kodansha publishes Nakayoshi.
==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
*Western Outlaws
*Western Thrillers
*Wild
=== Hulton Press ===
* Swift
=== National Comics ===
* Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (Oct.)
* Our Fighting Forces (Oct.)
=== 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 (Mar.)
* Gorilla-Man (Arthur Nagan) in Mystery Tales #21 ([Sept.) 
* Jann of the Jungle in Jungle Tales #1 (Sept.)
* M-11 in Menace #11 (May) 
* Outlaw Kid in The Outlaw Kid #1 (Sept.)
* Western Kid in The Western Kid #1 (Nov.)
=== Dell Comics ===
* Turok in Four Color Comics #596 (Oct./Nov.)
=== L. Miller & Son ===
* Marvelman in Marvelman #25 (3 Feb.)
=== National Comics ===
* Angle Man in Wonder Woman #70 (Nov. 1954)
* Crimesmith in World's Finest Comics #68 (Jan./Feb.)
* Janu the Jungle Boy in Action Comics #191 (Apr.)
* Mysto in Detective Comics #203 (Jan.) 
* Space Cabbie in Mystery in Space #21 (Aug.)
=== Prize Comics ===
* Fighting American in Fighting American #1 (Apr./May)
=== Newspaper strips ===
* Charlotte Braun in Peanuts (Nov. 30)
* Pig-Pen in Peanuts (July 13)
Category:1954