Title: The Ten-Cent Plague
Subtitle: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
First published: March 18, 2008
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.
Subjects: Comic books, strips, Social aspects of Comic books, strips, etc., History, Popular Culture, History and criticism, Comic books, strips, etc., Literature and society, Popular culture, united states, New York Times reviewed, Social aspects, Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century