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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
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Forgetting the First Amendment
Laws aren't any crazier today then they were 50 years ago-- people just have short memories!
This excellent is about the comic-book bans that the government inacted in the 1950s-- they burned comic books all over the nation. They even banned Wonder Woman because she was too much like a sexual dominatrix (with the gold lasso, etc) and her outfit was too skimpy. Compare that to the flesh you see on TV now!
The first amendment...
comic books
What a wonderful book this is, despite a subject that hardly seems interesting, the moral outrage over comic books in the early 1950s. The author delightfully recreates the period and clearly loves his subject. Comic book creators and publishers come off as people you would like to know, and the outrage over easy subjects is amusing. The depiction of the era is good, and there even are nuggets of genuine wisdom. Admittedly, the cumulative effect of all...
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