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Reading David Hajdu: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

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Before video games had parents and pundits up-in-arms about America's youth, comic books were public enemy number one. Of course, as author David Hajdu explains in his latest history of oddball Americana, The Ten-Cent Plague, comics in the '40s and early '50s weren't always kid stuff: mutant monsters defrocked damsels, gangsters were cut from pulp fiction's rough cloth, and even biblical comics weren't afraid to play up the more violent aspects of the Old Testament. How the Justice League survived Senate hearings, while Tales from the Crypt suffered, is just one of the questions Hajdu addresses tonight.

– Matt Sussman

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