Nonfiction

The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told — until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art.