862 David Hajdu, author, "The Ten-Cent Plague" - a podcast by Bob Andelman

From 2008: Run for your lives! Hide the women and children! There’s a Ten-Cent Plague loose upon this fine land! My guest today, David Hajdu, is the author of a new book that – at the very least – probably has the best title of the year, "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America." Hajdu looks back at a hysterical period in American history – one of many, to be sure – when comic books were considered such a threat to our way of life that the industry nearly vanishe

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