Boy reading comics, 1953 (b/w photo)

Stockholm in the 1950s. A boy sits outside Bonnier's publisher's building at Sveaväge 56 and reads a comic book. The year is 1953. Cinema Riviera can be seen a little further down the street Sveaväge 52. Farthest to the right is the Konserthuset at the intersection of Kungsgatan. With Kalle Anka & C:o and Seriemagasinet starting to come out in 1948, the comic book phenomenon took off in earnest in Sweden. After a boom in the 1950s, the development slowed somewhat, partly because the American series debate also reached Sweden. During the 1950s and 60s, comic books began to be considered "inappropriate literature", and were accused of promoting violence among children and adolescents. Instead, book reading was praised in the general social debate. It was believed that children should read books instead of comics, and few thought that they should read both. This culminated around 1954, when Nils Bejerot's debate book Children Series Society was published. Sweden 1953