The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu, Author. With THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE, David Hajdu does for comic books what his previous books did so brilliantly for music. Be the first. While some of it was over-the-top, it also provided entertainment and occasionally delivered a message as well. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (434p) ISBN 978-0-374-18767-5 . Prior to the investigation, comics were expanding at … The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America 3.8 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. This was an era when comics were at a creative and commercial peak, dealing with not only the superhero genre, but also horror, crime, war and romance. In "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America", David Hajdu argues, "Though they were not traitors, the makers of crime, romance, and horror comics were propagandists of a sort, cultural insurgents. The ten-cent plague : the great comic-book scare and how it changed America (Book) While some of it was over-the-top, it also provided entertainment and occasionally delivered a message as well. This was an era when comics were at a creative and commercial peak, dealing with not only the superhero genre, but also horror, crime, war and romance. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu, Author. David Hajdu's The Ten Cent Plague details one such situation that occurred in the early 1950s and focused on comic books. By David Hajdu ( Author ) [ Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America By Feb-2009 Paperback | David Hajdu | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. [David Hajdu] -- 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. This was an era when comics were at a creative and commercial peak, dealing with not only the superhero genre, but also horror, crime, war and romance. Add tags for "The ten-cent plague : the great comic-book scare and how it changed America". Vividly written and meticulously researched, Hajdu's account takes us from the birth of the first funnies to the death of EC and the triumph of the censors. In "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America", David Hajdu argues, "Though they were not traitors, the makers of crime, romance, and horror comics were propagandists of a sort, cultural insurgents.

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