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

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The 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 creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.In the…