Going to give this one a read, over the weekend. Detective/murder mystery combined with some 1950's era comics history.
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"Seduction of the Innocent" is set during that weird period in the 1950s when the comic-book industry was attacked by an amalgam of social science, politicians, and parents groups. This is a scene that we've seen repeated many times since with popular music, videogames, movies and the internet, but the anti-comics hysteria was unique in that the outcome of the hysteria forcibly reshaped the content of comic-books for decades afterwards. While not a straight documentary by any means, the book captures the anxious mood of the era and uses it as both the backdrop and prime mover of the story.
Most of "Seduction" is a good-old-fashioned whodunit that's more of a pot-boiler than hard-boiled, which makes for a quick read that's a lot of fun to get through. The setup: An anti-comics crusader (based closely on real-life anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham) is murdered after giving testimony to a Senate subcommittee, and there's no shortage of suspects within the comic-book industry to blame
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