Danny's review
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by David Hajdu
Danny's review
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
Danny's review
rating:
bookshelves:
history,
sociological
Overall, I enjoyed this book, but because of the writing style, it didn't blow me out of the water...
The narrative takes place primarily in post WWII America. The political and social landscape is greatly influenced and shaped by America's emergence as a military and political world power as well as the "hive mentality" communist/Soviet paranoia (which later morphed into the McCarthy-dominated House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings (HCUA)). That social environment bred a climate that ultimately resulted in the nationwide implementation of draconian community-imposed (and later industry-imposed) content requirements for comic books as well as grotesquely staged mass burnings of books not meeting those standards.
Author Hadju had the remarkable benefit of having access and interviewing a phenomenal number of publishers, writers, and artists direct...more
The narrative takes place primarily in post WWII America. The political and social landscape is greatly influenced and shaped by America's emergence as a military and political world power as well as the "hive mentality" communist/Soviet paranoia (which later morphed into the McCarthy-dominated House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings (HCUA)). That social environment bred a climate that ultimately resulted in the nationwide implementation of draconian community-imposed (and later industry-imposed) content requirements for comic books as well as grotesquely staged mass burnings of books not meeting those standards.
Author Hadju had the remarkable benefit of having access and interviewing a phenomenal number of publishers, writers, and artists direct...more
