May 23, 2008
The Not-So-Untold Story of the Great Comic-Book Scare
"I think Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry."
— Fredric Wertham, in testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, 1954
David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) has been greeted mostly with glowing reviews. A lively read, The Ten-Cent Plague digs deeply into the social context surrounding the "comic-book panic" of the
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