The Ten-Cent Plague
Subtitle: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Publisher: Picador
Published: February 3, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780312428235
Subjects: Arts & Photography -- Design & Decorative Arts -- Graphic Design; Comics & Graphic Novels -- Cartooning; Comics & Graphic Novels -- Comic Strips; Comics & Graphic Novels -- Graphic Novels; Entertainment -- Humor -- Satire; History -- Americas -- United States -- 20th Century; History -- Historical Study -- Social History; Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Popular Culture
First sentence: The first mission of the funny pages was to convoke the lower classes.