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

By David , Hajdu

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Picador
ISBN
9781429937054, 142993705X
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
1 MB (1555692 bytes)
Edition
First Picador edition
Pages
(434 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illust
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Society iss nix -- It was work -- Crime pays -- Youth in crisis -- Puddles of blood -- Then let us commit them -- Woofer and tweeter -- Love--LOVE--LOVE!! -- New trend -- Humor in a jugular vein -- Panic -- The triumph of Dr. Payn -- What are we afraid of? -- We've had it! -- Murphy's law -- Out of the frying pan and into the soup.;"In the years between 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."--Cover, p.4. Society iss nix -- It was work -- Crime pays -- Youth in crisis -- Puddles of blood -- Then let us commit them -- Woofer and tweeter -- Love--LOVE--LOVE!! -- New trend -- Humor in a jugular vein -- Panic -- The triumph of Dr. Payn -- What are we afraid of? -- We've had it! -- Murphy's law -- Out of the frying pan and into the soup.

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