Comic Art Bibliography: Violence Controversy in comic books

I chose this because there's a good bit on the Ten-Cent Plague, but I notice that I don't have Amy Nyberg's book on Comic Code Authority (that'll be in John's earlier volumes) or Bart Beaty's book on Wertham so be on the lookout for those two. And keep in mind, these are supposed to be post-2005 on the assumption that John's previous 10-volume set picked up pre-2005.

Violence Controversy
Crist, Judith. 1948. Horror in the nursery [Wertham]. Collier's (March 27)
[Unknown.] 1949. School for Sadism: Folk Art in the Atomic Age [comics]. Art Digest 23(May):27.
The Ten-Cent Plague (2008) by David Hajdu
Akst, Daniel. 2008. Pulp factions: Wildly popular in the 1940s and '50s, edgy comics aroused the ire of teachers, religious leaders, and lawmakers [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Boston Globe (March 16).
Online at http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/03/16/pulp_factions/
Andelman, Bob. 2008. David Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague author: Mr. Media Audio Interview.
Mr. Media.com (May 17): http://www.mrmedia.com/2008/05/david-hajdu-ten-cent-plague-author-mr.html
Athitakis, Mark. 2008. David Hajdu, Monday, April 7, at Politics and Prose. Washington City Paper (April 4). Online at http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34841
Baker, R.C. 2008. The Ten-Cent Plague: Weird tales, indeed; David Hajdu's History of the Comic-Book Panic. Village Voice (March 18). Online at http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0812,david-hajdu-comic-book-panic,381194,10.html
Bartilucci, Vinnie. 2008. David Hajdu On The Ten Cent Plague [interview]. Newsarama (March 20): http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=150751
Beaty, Bart. 2008. CR Review Special: Bart Beaty On David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague. Comics Reporter April 22-24):
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_review_special_bart_beaty_on_david_hajdus_the_ten_cent_plague_part_one/ ;
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_review_special_bart_beaty_on_david_hajdus_the_ten_cent_plague_part_two/ ;
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_review_special_bart_beaty_on_david_hajdus_the_ten_cent_plague_part_three/
Boucher, Geoff. 2008. 'The Ten-Cent Plague' by David Hajdu: How comic book creators tested the limits of content in the face of an ever-changing bonfire brigade. Los Angeles Times (March 16): http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bk-boucher16mar16,1,7308194.story
Cardace, Sara. 2008 David Hajdu on the Great Comics Scare. NYMag.com (March 26): http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/03/david_hajdu_on_the_great_comic.html
Carlson, Jenny. 2008. The Ten-Cent Plague: Revisiting the 20th-Century Comic Book Scare. PopMatters (April 23): http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/57113/ten-cent-plague-revisiting-the-20th-century-comic-book-scare/
Clayson, Jane. 2008. The 1950s Comic-Book Scare [Hajdu]. National Public Radio and WBUR's On Air (March 26). online at http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/03/20080326_b_main.asp
Cremins, Robert. 2008. New in fiction and nonfiction: threats to wholesomeness [Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Houston Chronicle (March 28). Online at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/books/5654537.html
DeLuca, Dan. 2008. Step aside, Elvis; comics changed it all. Though he exaggerates their importance, the author unearths a forgotten story of censorship [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Philadelphia Inquirer (March 16).
Online at http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20080316_Step_aside__Elvis__comics_changed_it_all.html
Deusner, Stephen M. 2008. Not So Funny: David Hajdu on Comic Book Controversies [interview]. Express (April 7): http://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2008/04/not_so_funny_david_hajdu_on_comic_book_c.php
Deusner, Stephen M. 2008. Comic-Phobia Not So Funny: David Hajdu explores controversy behind an American pastime. [Washington Post] Express (April 7): 20
Doherty, Brian. 2009. Friday Mini Book Review: The Ten Cent Plague. Reason.com (January 2): http://reason.com/blog/show/130877.htm l
Dotinga, Randy. 2008. Why comic books scared us so: Captain Marvel reduced to ashes by terrified parents? David Hajdu examines the great comic-book panic of the 1950s [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America; audio interview on website]. Christian Science Monitor (March 25). Online at http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0325/p13s02-bogn.html
Douthat, Ross. 2008. Yesterday's Culture Wars [Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. The Atlantic.com (April 17): http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/yesterdays_culture_wars.php
Drabelle, Dennis. 2008. Horror! Suspense! Censorship! A cultural critic recounts how comics were ripped out of kids' grubby hands [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Washington Post Book World (March 23): BW08.
Online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032002965.html
Duin, Steve. 2008. 'Ten-Cent Plague' illustrates history of early comic-book scare; Seeing the 'scary' in the comic-book scare would have been better [Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. The Oregonian (April 13). Online at http://www.oregonlive.com/O/artsandbooks/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1207695402267480.xml&coll=7
Frazier, Joseph B. / Associated Press. 2008. When Comic Books Were Under Attack [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. SFGate.com (February 26): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/26/entertainment/e112830S93.DTL&type=health
Frazier, Joseph B. 2008. Book talks about when comic books were under attack: review [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Canadian Press (February 26): http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7za_462FHUE_kvN5snJKdC47zPw
Hajdu, David. 2008. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America [censorship]. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hajdu, David. 2008. David Hajdu: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. Free Library of Philadelphia podcast (March 18): http://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/?podcastID=76
Hajdu, David. 2008. The Ten-Cent Plague. Bookforum (February / March 2008): http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_05/2045
Hajdu, David. 2008. ABFFE Book of the Month: The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu [interview]. American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. Online at http://www.abffe.com/tencentplague.html
Hajdu, David and Douglas Wolk. 2008. A TNR Debate: 'The Ten-Cent Plague' by David Hajdu & Douglas Wolk. The New Republic.com (April 7, 9, 10): http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=7632ea18-10c6-4cc7-b6f2-c9d5763917b0
http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=9906653e-5548-47a2-97b9-4fdb181ca4b6
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=7832032b-7b17-4e18-8cf6-2b4075f080e3
Handlen, Zack. 2008. The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [book review]. The Onion (April 24). Online at http://www.avclub.com/content/words/the_ten_cent_plague
Heer, Jeet. 2008. How comic books ruined the nation [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. The Globe and Mail (March 22). Online at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080322.BKJEET22/TPStory/Entertainment
Hogan, Ron. 2008. Hajdu's Comic Turn: From Strayhorn to Dylan to the homoerotic in Batman [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Publishers Weekly (January 7). Online at http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6517339.html
Kanfer, Stefan. 2008. Pyrrhic Victory: A new comic-book history chronicles a war between good taste and free expression [Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. City Journal (May 2): http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0502sk.html
Kannenberg, Gene Jr. 2008. The Not-So-Untold Story of the Great Comic-Book Scare [Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. The Chronicle Review 54 (37, May 23): B19
Kaufmann, David. 2008. Comics: Marvel’s Mavens [Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero by Danny Fingeroth; The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by Hajdu]. Jewish Daily Forward (March 19).
Online at http://www.forward.com/articles/12974/
Klaw, Rick. 2008. Readings - The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. Austin Chronicle (March 21). Online at http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A603808
Lopate, Leonard. 2008. The Comic Book Plague [David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. National Public Radio / WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show (April 21). Online at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/04/21/segments/97112
or http://audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate042108bpod.mp3
Maslin, Janet. 2008. The Amazing Adventures of the Midcentury Comic Book Trade [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. New York Times (March 10). Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/books/10masl.html?ex=1362888000&en=cebe7addb7baea86&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Mautner, Chris. 2008. Comics' history not so comic, new book says [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Patriot-News (March 21).
Online at
http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1206067218198860.xml&coll=1
Menand, Louis. 2008. The Horror: Congress investigates the comics [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. New Yorker.com (March 31): http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/03/31/080331crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all
Miller, Laura. 2008. Panic in the pages; Did comic books -- and the firestorm they touched off in the 1950s -- do more than rock 'n' roll to create the generation gap? [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Salon (March 24): http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/24/hajdu/print.html
Miller, Roger K. 2008. 'Sick' influence on teens worried 1950s U.S. [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 23). Online at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08083/866753-148.stm
Miller, Roger K. 2008. Mad about comics: As the popularity of comics increased in the 1940s, so did the fear and loathing of parents, churches and lawmakers [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Minneapolis Star Tribune (March 14). Online at http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/16658226.html
Minzesheimer, Bob. 2008. 'Ten-Cent Plague': Comic books and censorship [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. USA Today (March 19). Online at http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-03-19-ten-cent-plague-hajdu_N.htm
Mozzocco, J. Caleb. 2008. A forgotten culture war: The Ten-Cent Plague chronicles the comic-book persecution of the 1950s [Hajdu]. Las Vegas Weekly (April 9). Online at http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/content/nc/a-e/comics/single-story/article/a-forgotten-culture-war/
Poague, George. 2008. When U.S. trembled in fear of comics [Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Clarksville TN Leaf Chronicle (April 13). Online at http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/COLUMNISTS02/804130304/-1/news01
Powers, Ron. 2008. Penny Dreadfuls [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. New York Times Book Review (March 23). Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Powers-t.html?ex=1363838400&en=808dcae5a57ba340&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Reese, Jennifer. 2008. Comics On Trial: David Hajdu's book recalls the early decency battle over that '50s scourge: comic books [The Ten-Cent Plague]. Entertainment Weekly (March 21): 62. Online at http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20184070,00.html
Rich. 2009. 'The Ten-Cent Plague' author David Hajdu at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur, Thursday, February 12. Cable & Tweed blog (February 11):
http://cableandtweed.blogspot.com/2009/02/ten-cent-plague-author-david-hajdu-at.html
Salie, Faith. 2008. Nicholas Christakis, Chris Parnell, David Hajdu [The Ten-Cent Plague]. Public Radio International's Fair Game (April 1). Online at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/fairgame/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=691886 ;
http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/fairgame/local-fairgame-691886.mp3
Saly, Samantha. 2008. J-School Prof Gives Talk on Subversive Role of Comics [Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Columbia Spectator (April 11). Online at http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/30412
Seligman, Craig. 2008. How Prudes, Senators Almost Killed Comic Books [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Bloomberg (March 18): http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aSqJ6SodlfBQ&refer=muse
Shwartz, Ben. 2008. Ben Shwartz Responds To Bart Beaty on David Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague. Comics Reporter (April 29): http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/random_comics_news_story_round_up042908/
Smith, Scott. 2008. Book review: The Ten-Cent Plague By David Hajdu. Time Out Chicago (163; April 10-16). Online at http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/books/28310/the-ten-cent-plague
Smith, Wendy. 2008. Comics relief: David Hajdu brings to life the colorful characters—real and imaginary—who gave a popular art form a boost [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Chicago Tribune (March 22).
Online at http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:3wNL86Hu5lQJ:www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-tencentbw22_cover-dtmar22,1,2954124.story+david+hajdu+review+ten+cent&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=50&gl=ca
Thorn, Jesse. 2008. Podcast: The Ten Cent Plague: David Hajdu on Comic Book Censorship in the 1950s. The Sound of Young America (May 2): http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2008/05/podcast-ten-cent-plague-david-hajdu-on.html
Tyler, Justin, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben. 2008. Comic Book Club w/ Andrew W.K., Mike Oeming, Adam Koford, and David Hajdu. Comic Book Club (April 1): http://www.popcultureshock.com/cbclub/?p=44
Unknown. 2008. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. The Week Daily (April ?). Online at http://www.theweekdaily.com/arts_leisure/books/37974/the_tencent_plague_the_great_comicbook_scare_and_how_it_changed_america.html
Unknown. 2008. Our Views: When comics raised anxiety [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Advocate Opinion (March 21): 8B
Online at http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/16884171.html
Usborne, David. 2008. Congress and a comic caper: Popular culture and the American way have never been comfortable bedfellows. As a new book reveals, even cartoons were accused of corrupting the nation's youth [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Independent (March 25). Online at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/congress-and-a-comic-caper-800218.html
Wirick, Richard. 2008. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu. Bookslut (April): http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2008_04_012653.php
Wolk, Douglas. 2008. Scare tactics: When comics were too crude for school [Hajdu’s Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America]. Boston Phoenix (March 24). Online at http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid58473.aspx
Zwiker, Jason A. 2008. Subversive Reading: David Hajdu recounts the controversial beginnings of comic book history. Book Review - The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America. Charleston City Paper (April 9). Online at http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A43421
Codes and "Cleanup"
Moore, Harold A. 1954. The comics crisis [Comic Code Authority]. Newsdealer (July): 3-4
Unknown. 2001. Bam! Kapow! Blasting the code [Marvel withdrawing from Comic Code Authority]. Newsweek (May 28)
Legislative Actions
Ratings
Wertham, Dr. Frederic
Wertham, Fredric. 1948. The Comics, Very Funny. Reader's Digest (August)
Wertham, Fredric. 1953. What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books. Ladies Home Journal (November)
Wertham, Fredric. 1954. Comic Books : Blueprints for Delinquency. Reader's Digest (May): 24-29
Wertham, Fredric. 1955. It’s still murder; What parents still don’t know about comic books.
Saturday Review (April 9): 11-12, 46-48