Laws aren't any crazier today then they were 50 years ago-- people just have short memories!
This excellent is about the comic-book bans that the government inacted in the 1950s-- they burned comic books all over the nation. They even banned Wonder Woman because she was too much like a sexual dominatrix (with the gold lasso, etc) and her outfit was too skimpy. Compare that to the flesh you see on TV now!
The first amendment basically went out the window for 10 years for an entire subset of the print industry.
The only drawback I felt, was that the book jumped around a lot-- from one point of view to another. But it was very exciting reading, and well-researched. I really enjoyed it.Get more detail about The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America.
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