Ten-Cent

Private Collection Ed Ruscha, Standard Station with Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, Oil on canvas, 65 x 121 1/2 inches 165.1 x 308.6 cm Los Angeles was getting 1,000 people – net gain – per day in 1956.

On the Road With Painter Ed Ruscha Kelly Crow 2011

The US Congressional crusade against Tales From the Crypt and other horror comics in the mid-1950 (see Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague) had a British equivalent resulting in The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act of 1955, and the flashpoint was an incident in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1954, when 400 children were discovered searching the Southern Necropolis for a vampire with iron teeth.

Plenty of Nothing: 2010

The US Congressional crusade against Tales From the Crypt and other horror comics in the mid-1950 (see Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague) had a British equivalent resulting in The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act of 1955, and the flashpoint was an incident in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1954, when 400 children were discovered searching the Southern Necropolis for a vampire with iron teeth.

Gorbals Vampire 2010

The US Congressional crusade against Tales From the Crypt and other horror comics in the mid-1950 (see Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague) had a British equivalent resulting in The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act of 1955, and the flashpoint was an incident in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1954, when 400 children were discovered searching the Southern Necropolis for a vampire with iron teeth.

Scottish Things 2010

(This reporter, included.) "My favorite part of the section is New York Observed," said The Ten-Cent Plague author David Hajdu, referring to the (usually) first-person essays in the section.

'City' Goes Dark: Writers Reflect on the Closing of a 'Times' Section 2009

Title Page TV is back with a new episode of their author interview podcast -- this one features David Hajdu's intriguing-looking comics history The Ten-Cent Plague, as well as Mary Roach's already much-loved sex science book Bonk and others.

Archive 2008-03-31 Book Nerd 2008

In the May 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, David Hajdu, author of the book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, pays homage to the “usual gang of idiots” behind Mad magazine.

Mad Magazine 2008

I noticed the tidbit about Patricia Highsmith last week, when it popped up in The Ten-Cent Plague.

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #152 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

Title Page TV is back with a new episode of their author interview podcast -- this one features David Hajdu's intriguing-looking comics history The Ten-Cent Plague, as well as Mary Roach's already much-loved sex science book Bonk and others.

Link-Mad Monday: Small Stores, Comics, and Anne Book Nerd 2008

Footnote 4: See monograph on _Five-and Ten-Cent Theatres_ by Louise de

The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben