In 1954, the United States Senate held hearings to determine whether comic books were destroying American youth. Parents organized bonfires. Publishers were hauled before cameras. And the comics industry, rather than fight, largely collapsed — adopting a censorship code that would hobble the medium for a generation. David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague is the definitive account of this moral panic: how it happened, who drove it, what it cost, and what was lost. Essential reading for anyone interested in comics history, censorship, or the strange currents of postwar American culture.
Condition: Excellent. Clean boards, tight spine, pages bright and unmarked.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In 1954, the United States Senate held hearings to determine whether comic books were destroying American youth. Parents organized bonfires. Publishers were hauled before cameras. And the comics industry, rather than fight, largely collapsed — adopting a censorship code that would hobble the medium for a generation. David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague is the definitive account of this moral panic: how it happened, who drove it, what it cost, and what was lost. Essential reading for anyone interested in comics history, censorship, or the strange currents of postwar American culture.
Condition: Excellent. Clean boards, tight spine, pages bright and unmarked.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
