Terry Teachout reviews a history book on cultural splash some comic books made a while back. The book is The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, by David Hajdu. (via Abe Greenwald)
Tags: comic books, horror comics, culture, American history
Interesting review. I remember (vaguely) adults in my childhood talking about how bad comics were, but I don’t remember it ever being a huge issue, like dancing or smoking (and the Left has come on board about smoking nowadays).
If you follow James Lileks’ bleat, you know that once a week he posts a page or two from some obscure old comic. Looking at the ones from the ’50s will quickly disabuse you of the idea that this stuff qualified as “art.”