THE TEN CENT PLAGUE - BOSTON APRIL 3

[bedrockcomics]

This Thursday, April 3 at 6pm, Columbia journalism

professor David Hajdu will present his latest work, The Ten-Cent Plague:

The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, at the Brattle

Theatre in Cambridge.

 

In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a

mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in

the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this

new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community

bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress—only to resurface with a

crooked smile on its face in /Mad/ magazine.

As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in /Lush

Life/) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in /Positively 4th Street/), Hajdu

brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.

 

$5 tickets are required and can be purchased at our bookstore or over

the phone with a credit card (617) 661-1515, or at the event itself, if

it is not sold out by that time. Ticket availability can always be

checked ahead of time by calling the bookstore.

 

If you think the Boston Comic Con community would be interested in this

event, please forward this email to them or direct them to

http://harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2008.

 

[mike h]

I'm going. I just called Harvard Bookstore and they said they have plenty o' tix.