(Download ebook) The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
• David Hajdu •
| #76699 in Books | Hajdu, David | 2009-02-03 | 2009-02-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.22 x.78 x5.54l,.80 | File Name: 0312428235 | 434 pages
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Book Every Comic Book Fan Should Read|By Paul Cook|So you think you know comics? You might know Batman or Wolverine or Captain America. Maybe you know Superman. Or Casper the Friendly Ghost. What you don't know is the true evolution of comics and how they came what they are today . . . and it's not a pretty story. As this book details, comics and comic book creators (and pub|.com |Significant Seven, March 2008: I may be alone here, but when I read Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a whole strata of American artists came to life for me. Ever since then I've been waiting for a book like David Hajd
The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.
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. No soo...
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