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Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 738 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.39 — 600,312 ratings — published 1987
Batman: The Killing Joke (Paperback)
by (shelved 577 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,023 ratings — published 1988
Batman: Year One (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.25 — 277,117 ratings — published 1988
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 493 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.25 — 275,055 ratings — published 1988
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 482 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 366,118 ratings — published 2012
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 430 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 199,772 ratings — published 1986
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 327,489 ratings — published 1990
Batman: The Long Halloween (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.35 — 113,846 ratings — published 1997
Saga, Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.49 — 116,325 ratings — published 2013
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.43 — 111,039 ratings — published 1990
Saga, Volume 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.48 — 99,463 ratings — published 2014
No Normal (Ms. Marvel, #1)
by (shelved 302 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 92,489 ratings — published 2014
Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 67,863 ratings — published 2012
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.24 — 125,045 ratings — published 1990
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 288 times as comic-books)
avg rating 3.98 — 144,077 ratings — published 2002
Batman: Hush (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,944 ratings — published 2002
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.27 — 244,658 ratings — published 2004
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.08 — 119,471 ratings — published 2003
Saga, Volume 4 (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.41 — 82,569 ratings — published 2014
The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.53 — 81,132 ratings — published 1991
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,210 ratings — published 1989
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.58 — 259,731 ratings — published 1980
Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 53,433 ratings — published 2013
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 69,318 ratings — published 1996
Superman: Red Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,011 ratings — published 2003
Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 66,470 ratings — published 2006
Saga, Volume 5 (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.40 — 72,217 ratings — published 2015
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1)
by (shelved 220 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 219,968 ratings — published 2004
The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.40 — 69,108 ratings — published 1992
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 100,414 ratings — published 2008
The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.41 — 61,518 ratings — published 1993
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as comic-books)
avg rating 3.95 — 56,485 ratings — published 2000
Paper Girls, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as comic-books)
avg rating 3.88 — 112,266 ratings — published 2016
Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas (Comics)
by (shelved 196 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.16 — 79,505 ratings — published 1995
Batman: Dark Victory (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,992 ratings — published 2000
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as comic-books)
avg rating 3.86 — 72,794 ratings — published 2007
Saga, Volume 6 (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.45 — 56,323 ratings — published 2016
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,494 ratings — published 1993
Batman, Volume 2: The City of Owls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,207 ratings — published 2013
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.39 — 380,719 ratings — published 1986
The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.44 — 54,651 ratings — published 1993
The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us (Comics)
by (shelved 175 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,475 ratings — published 2004
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.58 — 52,707 ratings — published 1995
Nimona (ebook)
by (shelved 172 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.18 — 190,235 ratings — published 2015
Marvel 1602 (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as comic-books)
avg rating 3.94 — 59,799 ratings — published 2003
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as comic-books)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,919 ratings — published 2014
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.08 — 45,556 ratings — published 2014
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,974 ratings — published 1998
The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.51 — 51,944 ratings — published 1996
Saga, Volume 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as comic-books)
avg rating 4.47 — 48,166 ratings — published 2017
“All of our testimony from psychiatrists and children themselves show that it's very upsetting, that it has a bad moral effect, and that it is directly responsible for a substantial amount of juvenile delinquency and child crime." In fact, both the expert testimony and the documentary evidence submitted at the hearings varied significantly in their judgments, and the committee spoke with no children; it had set a policy of precluding the testimony of minors.
The writer of the program, A. J. Fenady, had not seen a transcript of the hearings before preparing Coates's questions and "basically threw the guy some softballs," he said, because "[Kefauver] wanted to use this soapbox to run for president" in the 1956 election. "The comic-book scare was the big thing he had going for him," Fenady recalled, "and he knew how to use it.”
― The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
The writer of the program, A. J. Fenady, had not seen a transcript of the hearings before preparing Coates's questions and "basically threw the guy some softballs," he said, because "[Kefauver] wanted to use this soapbox to run for president" in the 1956 election. "The comic-book scare was the big thing he had going for him," Fenady recalled, "and he knew how to use it.”
― The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
“It is poppycock to think that it is necessary to resort to laws to make America greater by banning comic books... This is a matter for the home, the school, the church, and other family influences - not the legislatures.”
― The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
― The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
