The Ten-Cent Plague

By David Hajdu

Subjects: History, Social aspects of Comic books, strips, etc., Comic books, strips, History and criticism, Literature and society, Popular Culture, Comic books, strips, etc., New York Times reviewed, Popular culture, united states, Social aspects

Description: An informal and personal description of the rise and fall of comic books in the '40s and '50s, with a focus on the Educational Comics (E.C.) company run by Gains, father then son (M.C. then William). The fall came in two steps, the first in the '40s and aimed at crime comics, and the second in the '50s and aimed at almost all comics, but with emphasis on horror comics.