Thursday, September 25, 2008

"The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America"



WORTH CONSUMING! 

If you are a die-hard comic book fan, this book might make you very upset at PTAs, Senate Judicial Hearings, Civic Groups, and Catholic Schools, with this retelling of the Horror Comics Scare and the many book burnings that happened as a result.

 This all happened in the late 40s and throughout the 50s. And it’s such a shock for a world devastated by the evils of Hitler to go half-cocked and do censorship and book burnings (A lot of this happened in the UK, but the focus in on the US). It makes someone who’s a big fan of the 50s, like myself, not want to visit that time period some much anymore, except to rescue a bunch of comic books!

But, despite these shortcomings, one must forgive all these groups that did wrong and focus on the real monster- a doctor by the name of Fredric Wertham- who surprise!- was a product of Nazi Germany!

 Great book, but it has a really tragic ending with the 8 pages of those who careers and livelihoods were ruin by that 1 evil man!

 

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