The ten-cent plague, the great comic-book scare and how it changed America, David Hajdu
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The ten-cent plague, the great comic-book scare and how it changed America, David Hajdu
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-412) and index
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non fiction
Main title
The ten-cent plague
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bibliography
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145431690
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David Hajdu
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the great comic-book scare and how it changed America
Summary
In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created--in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. Comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress. This book opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority, showing how--years before rock 'n' roll--comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards.-- From publisher description
Table Of Contents
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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