Events and publications Publishers Comic Media, Fiction House, Star Publications, and Youthful go out of business. February February 3: A controversial cartoon by Leslie Illingworth in Punch shows a visibly old and tired Winston Churchill behind his desk. It instantly causes outrage and scandal. February 13: Leo Baxendale's The Bash Street Kids makes its debut in The Beano, but is still named When the Bell Rings in this period. It will receive its definitive title on 11 November 1956. February 27: The first issue of the British comics magazine Jack and Jill is published. It will run until 29 June 1985. Hopalong Cassidy, with issue #86, revived by DC Comics, taking over the numbering of the Fawcett Comics series. The first issue of the American comics magazine Panic is published. March March 1: The Billy DeBeck Awards are renamed the Reuben Awards. March 4: Jijé's Jerry Spring makes its debut. March 20: Marten Toonder's Koning Hollewijn makes its debut. It will run until 26 June 1971. March 20: First issue of the British comics magazine Swift is published. It will run until 2 March 1963. Atlas Comics publishes Lorna, the Jungle Girl #6 (renamed from Lorna, the Jungle Queen) The secret of Atlantis, by Carl Barks, on Uncle Scrooge. April April 14: Raymond Macherot's Chlorophylle makes its debut. April 19: German-American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham publishes his treatise Seduction of the Innocent. The book warns that comic books are a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. A minor bestseller, it alarms parents, teachers and moral guardians and galvanized them to campaign for comics censorship. April 21–22: United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings on the comic book industry. In Italy, Avventure nel West, by Edizioni Audace (Bonelli), series reprinting Italian Western comics, makes its debut. May May 1: The 11th issue of Mad Magazine is published, featuring Basil Wolverton's iconic parody of the Beautiful Girl of the Month on the cover. May 16: In Italy, the first issues of Albi della rosa (reprints of Disney comics, aimed to the youngest readers) and Albi del falco (adventures of Superman, renamed Nembo Kid, and later also of the other DC heroes) are published by Mondadori. The second magazine, lasted till 1970, makes superheroes comics popular in Italy, even if the original stories are often heavily manipulated or censored. In Gilbert, relative genius by Bill Wright, Gilbert,