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Saturday, March 29th
DAVID HAJDU signs
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare
and How It Changed
America
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00)
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Publishers Weekly starred: "After writing about the folk scene of the early 1960s in Positively 4th Street, Hajdu goes back a decade to examine the censorship debate over comic books, casting the controversy as a prelude to the cultural battle over rock music... There are no real heroes here, only villains and victims; Hajdu turns to the writers and artists whose careers were ruined when censorship and other legal restrictions gutted the comics industry, and young kids who were coerced into participating in book burnings by overzealous parents and teachers. With such a meticulous setup, the history builds slowly but the main attraction -- EC Comics publisher Bill Gaines's attempt to explain in a Senate committee hearing how an illustration of a man holding a severed head could be in good taste -- holds all the dramatic power it has acquired as it's been told among fans over the past half-century." And Janet Maslin in the New York Times said: "...this book tells an amazing story, with thrills and chills more extreme than the workings of a comic book's imagination." | |
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