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Author David Hajdu chats about his new book "The Ten-Cent Plague," which looks at the anti-comic book/juvenile delinquent scare of the 1950s.

...the story of the controversy over comics has been told before, but on a certain scale. But there’s a great deal more to that story that has hasn’t been told. Especially the story of those people who suffered most from that purge…because they disappeared. And because they disappeared, because they haven’t done the comic-book conventions, they haven’t stayed in the scene; their stories were largely lost to time. The story of the purge is a tragedy, but what brings the tragedy to life is an understanding of how some people suffered by having their livelihoods taken from them, and being denied the ability to do something they were proud of and they treasured and they thought was important. Some of these people felt so wounded, they felt such a miscarriage of justice had happened, they felt so wronged, that they left comics and never looked back. They were bitter about their comics experience and they never looked back.

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories shares several posts-worth of lovely Michael Kaluta art.

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Jon's Random Acts of Geekery presents a nice selection of found-on-eBay original comic book art.

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