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Senior exit ruff draft : The conflict of censorship in comic books
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When William M. Gaines took over Entertaining Comics (EC) in 1947, the company was nothing special. That all changed three years later when Gaines and editor...

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A report by Paul Coates. Produced by Jim Peck. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Aired October 9, 1955. A KTTV Production, Los Angeles, for Times-Mirror. In 1954 t...

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Section: Life, Pg. 01d
The Ten-Cent Plague:
The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
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By David Hajdu
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
434 pp., $26
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In an age of video-game violence and the nearly-anything-goes Internet, it's instructive to read that once upon a time, not that long ago, Congress was concerned about what was widely viewed as a serious menace to American youth: comic books.
David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague is both cultural history and cautionary tale about censorship. It's a well-written, detailed look at how comic books became a phenomenon in the early 1950s and how authorities cracked down on the most popular form of entertainment in America.
At the time, comics were selling more than 80 million copies a week. But unlike movies and the new TV industry, they were unregulated -- at least for a while.
Their content was shifting from the noble exploits of superheroes to edgier and darker material: stories of crime, vice, lust and horror.
Congress held televised hearings on what was described as the link between comics and juvenile delinquency. Bill Gaines, publisher of

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