The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
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Book Summary Author: David Hajdu Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2008-03-18 ISBN: 0374187673 Number of pages: 448 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Customer Review: Censorship in four colors
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is an interesting overview of the "beginning of the end" of the great1950s' crime and monster comic craze that featured horrific comic book titles like Dick Briefer's The Monster of Frankenstein and The EC Archives: Crime Suspenstories Volume 1 (The Ec Archives), both of which quickly gets cancelled due to the creation of the self-imposed Comic Code Authority. The fuss starts when Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent (a scathing assault on the comic book industry due to its use of sex, violence and deviate behavior - all of which was aimed at children) is published and garnishes enough controversy to warrant a Senate committee hearing. The result: decades of censorship and wimpy white-bread superheroes cast as role models for the youth of America. THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE is a must read for any golden age comic fan.