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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by David Hajdu
Description: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America examines the post-World War II backlash against comic books, detailing the widespread criticism, censorship efforts, and cultural impact during the 1940s and 1950s
ISBN: 0312428235
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kouru225 · 2023-11-06 · Original thread
I was wrong about the era, apparently the height of the comic book scare was the late 1950s, but it continued to the end of the century as far as I remember.

It's all based on this book Seduction of the Innocent: https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/d...

Here's an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic...

The scare went all the way to Congress.

Here's a book about the history of the comic book scare: https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-Am...