Author

Publication

2008-03-18 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Word Count

112,000 words, Guess

Page Count

448 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007025024
  • Goodreads1870771

Classifications

  • LCCPN6725 .H33 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.

First Sentence

Sawgrass Village, a tidy development about twenty-five miles east of Jacksonville, Florida, is named for the wild marsh greenery that its turf lawns displaced.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaHardcoverFarrar, Straus and Giroux2008-03-18

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