From the Bookshelf: The Ten-Cent Plague

It was somehow tempting to see even a little dissonance in a book about “American comics” spotted at an anime convention, but its being heavily marked down offered a different temptation to buy it. Working my way through David Hajdu’s “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America” over the next week (while dealing with a cold it’s tempting in a different way again to blame on being in such a crowd), I recalled having heard a bit about the book when it had first been published over ten years before and glancing into it in the ship’s library on a cruise not that many years back, but also kept comparing it to a few other histories involving “the comic book scare” I’d read before.
( For one thin dime )