The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 18 mar 2008 - 448 pagine The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. |
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2 It Was Work | 32 |
3 Crime Pays | 53 |
4 Youth in Crisis | 71 |
5 Puddles of Blood | 92 |
6 Then Let Us Commit Them | 112 |
7 Woofer and Tweeter | 132 |
12 The Triumph of Dr Payn | 228 |
13 What Are We Afraid Of? | 245 |
14 Weve Had It | 274 |
15 Murphys Law | 305 |
16 Out of the Frying Pan and into the Soup | 319 |
Epilogue | 331 |
Appendix | 335 |
Notes | 353 |
8 Love LOVE LOVE | 154 |
9 New Trend | 175 |
10 Humor in a Jugular Vein | 193 |
11 Panic | 209 |
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Acknowledgments | 413 |
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu Anteprima limitata - 2009 |
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu Anteprima limitata - 2008 |
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu Visualizzazione estratti - 2008 |