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The Not-So-Untold Story of the Great Comic-Book Scare

By GENE KANNENBERG JR.

"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...

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