![]() ![]() ![]() The zeitgeist was very like Athens during the trial of Socrates: when the country and its institutions are grappling with war-induced trauma and the future is so uncertain, why rock the boat by stirring up the young folks? At the time, however, the argument gelled around a confluence of fear that American institutions, the preservation of which much blood had been spilled in World War II and the Korean War being fought at the time, were under attack. It is a controversy alive and well today, though differently clothed and with many more variables on the table. How bad was it? Such was the frenzy that it may have affected the outcome of an American presidential race, costing Senator Estes Kefauver a shot at the title and leaving a young Jack Kennedy open for a run. You would think that protests against American institutions wouldn't be fought in trenches lined with pages from a four-color printing press, or that superheroes at one time represented the greatest threat to America as a country since Paul Revere and his horse let us know the redcoats were on their way. ![]() The Great Comic Book Scare & How It Changed America Rambles.NET: David Hadju, The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare & How It Changed America David Hadju, ![]()
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