Kill All Comics!

How 1950’s paranoia went MAD

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Before slasher films, rap music and internet porn, even before rock ā€˜n’ roll, self-righteous America found cause for juvenile delinquency in comic books. Columbia journalism professor and former Entertainment Weekly editor David Hajdu unearths the largely forgotten 1950s campaign against illustrated pulp and discovers larger issues of censorship and Puritanical scape-goating…

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