David Hajdu

Author of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

June 11, 2008 Nailing

 * mid 1940's-mid-1950's were not concerned with super heroes, but the criminal element


 * those comics books are the DNA of the culture of today


 * society is a static thing, carved in stone


 * called Stephen a miracle of consistency


 * Congress had hearings
 * people burned them


 * elaborate justification for not throwing out his old copies of Plasticman