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Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Cold War-Era Assault on Comic Book Culture, Revisited

The Cold War-Era Assault on Comic Book Culture, Revisited: "Author Dave Hajdu tells the story of an infamous time in magazine history in the United States in his new book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. While today's gamers eagerly await the latest version of Grand Theft Auto, we recall a time when the ten-cent comic book was about as titillating as it got, and what the U.S. did to try to purge it.





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