| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
434 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-412) and index. |
| Summary |
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. Comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress. This book opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority, showing how--years before rock 'n' roll--comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards.-- From publisher description. |
| Contents |
Society iss nix -- It was work -- Crime pays -- Youth in crisis -- Puddles of blood -- Then let us commit them -- Woofer and tweeter -- Love ... LOVE ... LOVE!! -- New trend -- Humor in a jugular vein -- Panic -- The triumph of Dr. Payn -- What are we afraid of? -- We've had it! -- Murphy's Law -- Out of the frying pan and into the soup. |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Comic books, strips, etc. (OCoLC)fst00869145
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00869173
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld (DE-588)10090522-5
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Comic (DE-588)4010427-8
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Strips.
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Sociale aspecten.
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United States.
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Geschichte 1945-1955
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| Genre/Form |
Comics (Graphic works) (OCoLC)fst01921613
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Comics (Graphic works)
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| Added Title |
10-cent plague : the great comic-book scare and how it changed America |
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Great comic-book scare and how it changed America |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Hajdu, David. Ten-cent plague. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 (OCoLC)608522102 |
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Online version: Hajdu, David. Ten-cent plague. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 (OCoLC)609319353 |
| ISBN |
9780374187675 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0374187673 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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