Stromm Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 While printing an Express Mail label for shipment to the UK I saw this in the restrictions. Am I misunderstanding this? Prohibitions Standard USPS Prohibitions -Any postal item containing enclosures addressed to different persons at different addresses. -Arms and parts of arms, except as noted under Observation #5 below. -Articles, goods infringing British trademarks or copyright laws. -Cards decorated with mica or ground glass or similar materials unless they are placed in envelopes. -Citizens Band Radios, walkie-talkies, microbugs, and radio microphones that are capable of transmitting on any frequency between 26.1 and 29.7 megacycles per second and 88 to 108 Mhz per second. -Goods made in foreign prisons, except those imported for a non-commercial purpose or of a kind not manufactured in the UK. -Horror comics and matrices. -Obscene articles, prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc. -Perishable infectious biological substances. -Seal skins except those from an accepted source. -Switchblade knives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aces Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Holy Moly! And they say there can't be any new topics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimatevenom Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Actually this is fairly old news. We had a discussion before about it, i have gotten horror comics through to England though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aces Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Actually this is fairly old news. We had a discussion before about it, i have gotten horror comics through to England though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimatevenom Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Actually this is fairly old news. We had a discussion before about it, i have gotten horror comics through to England though I believe POV posted about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fable Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 I've never had any issue receiving any form of comics importing, and i've had many thousands. I doubt they really care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenWA Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 I have imported 00's of comics shipped from the US, including (for example) The Walking Dead which probably falls into the "horror" category. Not once have a had a problem, until this week a seller has contacted me to tell me that "Horror comics are banned in the UK". He discover this when he tried to ship me a comic I had purchased. We have comic shops, Comic Cons, horror movies and a Walking Dead attraction at one of major theme parks. I believe it harks back to an old day and has yet to be repealed. It would never be enforced... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 (edited) Very antiquated now, dating back to the Wertham "Seduction of the Innocent" / Introduction of the Comics Code period in the 1950s. Even in the 1970s you would see Skywald horror magazines, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night distributed here. Nothing to worry about. Edited February 7, 2020 by Ken Aldred Larryw7, mrc, 1950's war comics and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrc Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1955 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament that prohibited comics that were thought to be harmful to children. The Act was introduced by the Home Secretary, Gwilym Lloyd George (a son of former prime minister David Lloyd George), in response to the publication of horror comics which had become popular by the 1950s.[1] This issue was drawn to the attention of Parliament by the National Union of Teachers and by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krismusic Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Ken Aldred said: Very antiquated now, dating back to the Wertham "Seduction of the Innocent" / Introduction of the Comics Code period in the 1950s. Even in the 1970s you would see Skywald horror magazines, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night distributed here. Nothing to worry about. I dunno US still has kinder surprise eggs banned in the US... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revat Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Krismusic said: 3 hours ago, Ken Aldred said: Very antiquated now, dating back to the Wertham "Seduction of the Innocent" / Introduction of the Comics Code period in the 1950s. Even in the 1970s you would see Skywald horror magazines, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night distributed here. Nothing to worry about. I dunno US still has kinder surprise eggs banned in the US... How many kids would choke on the kinder surprise in the US each year? Howabout just in Florida? Americans cannot be trusted to not eat things, this has been proven over and over, most recently with tide pods. B2D327 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, revat said: How many kids would choke on the kinder surprise in the US each year? Howabout just in Florida? Americans cannot be trusted to not eat things, this has been proven over and over, most recently with tide pods. That’s a concern over here too, of course ; the choking risk. Edited February 8, 2020 by Ken Aldred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gnasher Posted February 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2020 14 hours ago, Ken Aldred said: Very antiquated now, dating back to the Wertham "Seduction of the Innocent" / Introduction of the Comics Code period in the 1950s. Even in the 1970s you would see Skywald horror magazines, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night distributed here. Nothing to worry about. From the public records archive Nov 1954... And as Ken states. similar restrictions in the 70's too StephenWA, Larryw7, Ken Aldred and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrc Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I do have a faint recollection that in the early 1970's I could not buy horror magazines. Maybe it would have been at the shopkeepers discretion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 23 minutes ago, mrc said: I do have a faint recollection that in the early 1970's I could not buy horror magazines. Maybe it would have been at the shopkeepers discretion? I never had any problems at the bus station paper stall I went to as a kid. I remember buying a couple of Skywald magazines there. DC's House of Mystery and House of Secrets were distributed here throughout the 70s. Some of the stories in those, while not as explicitly gory as EC's, could be quite psychologically disturbing. The relaxation of the Comics Code, permitting more horror material, and the interpretation of outdated and heavy-handed legislation were in a state of total confusion here, even then. mrc and StephenWA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrc Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said: I never had any problems at the bus station paper stall I went to as a kid. I remember buying a couple of Skywald magazines there. DC's House of Mystery and House of Secrets were distributed here throughout the 70s. Some of the stories in those, while not as explicitly gory as EC's, could be quite psychologically disturbing. The relaxation of the Comics Code, permitting more horror material, and the interpretation of outdated and heavy-handed legislation were in a state of total confusion here, even then. ......I had to 'borrow' my World of Horror mags from a school friend! Ken Aldred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch88 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I believe Canada still has a law about crime comics on their books. Action252Kid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rakehell Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 7:30 PM, Ken Aldred said: Even in the 1970s you would see Skywald horror magazines, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night distributed here. We (they) also did their own versions of a lot of the Skywald & Stanley Morse titles. I got this - a couple of weeks ago in a lot with a bunch of other 70s horror stuff. It's #3 of the UK series published by Top Sellers. It reprints stories from the Skywald series. There were also a bunch of Hammer magazines around then, weren't there? Ken Aldred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 (edited) 58 minutes ago, rakehell said: There were also a bunch of Hammer magazines around then, weren't there? That would be House of Hammer, I think? The magazine that Dez Skinn produced before Warrior. I have a few of them. Some good British artists in there such as John Bolton and Steve Parkhouse. Edited February 11, 2020 by Ken Aldred rakehell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B2D327 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 I doubt it was enforced once all the hoopla died down and all the recreational outrage moved on to something else. Plenty of silver and early bronze age books were printed with the pence price tags rakehell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
