The Ten-Cent Plague

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

The rise, fall and rise again of American comic books. David Hajdu looks at the growth in popularity of comic books in the US following the Second World War, and at the moral panic which was raised over their uncensored content.

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Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780312428235
Publisher: Picador
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 302.2324097309046
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 434 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 366g
Height: 208mm
Width: 139mm
Spine width: 22mm