Book talks about when comic books were under attack: review
"The Ten-Cent Plague"
By David Hajdu (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Hey, Kids! Dad was an abusive drunk, mom had a public boyfriend and angelic, blond-haired little Lucy hated them all.
So she shot dad, planted the gun, lied her face off in court, and the judge gave mom and paramour Stevie the hot squat. The last panels in the story "Orphan" show Mom and Stevie dying in the electric chair (separately) and one happy Lucy.
All this and more for a dime. Shock Stories, Entertainment Comics Group, April/May, 1954.
There were worse comics out there, dripping with crime, gore, sex and terror and leading to state and local censorship laws, church and school-inspired book burnings, thuggish youth posses policing malt shop magazine racks and televised U.S. Senate hearings.
Even "Archie" comics fed school yard pyres under codes that, evenly applied, would have torched some of the world's great literature.
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7za_462FHUE_kvN5snJKdC47zPw
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