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The Ten-Cent Plague:

The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
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Macmillan, Feb 3, 2009 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 434 pages

In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, the popular culture of today was invented in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. But no sooner had comics emerged than they were beaten down by mass bonfires, congressional hearings, and a McCarthyish panic over their unmonitored and uncensored content. Esteemed critic David Hajdu vividly evokes the rise, fall, and rise again of comics in this engrossing history.

  

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Review: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America

User Review  - Alex Nagler - Goodreads

This book serves two important purposes: 1) It is a worthy history of comic books from their inception to the mid 1950s, where it looks like the medium may have very well ceased after being legislated ... Read full review

Review: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America

User Review  - Mike (the Paladin) - Goodreads

This book gives most of the story of "the great comic book scare" but it does it from a somewhat slanted perspective. Oddly in part I agree with the aversion shown to the control freak reaction to ... Read full review

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About the author (2009)

David Hajdu is the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña.

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