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

In the 1940s and 1950s, American popular culture was first created in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books, only to be beaten down by a McCarthyish panic over their unmonitored and uncensored content. Esteemed critic Hajdu vividly evokes the rise, fall, and rise again of comics. \n \nThe story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativ