The Ten-Cent Plague Stephen Thrower Young Lillian was much too

Young Lillian was much too young when she married Waldo

In the years since

the theme of this third book is “a world ruled by a mistress

" art by Harvey Kurtzman

The Ten-Cent Plague Stephen Thrower Young Lillian was much tooIn 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. The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has