THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by David Hajdu
9780374187675 FSG
$26.00; hardcover
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. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress—only to resurface with a crooked smile on its face in Mad magazine.
THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America 
The 2008 Winner of 
The E. B. White Read Aloud Award 