The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu

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

David Hajdu

434 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction comics history adventurous slow-paced
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In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created--in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was...

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adventurous 8%
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