EC Comics: Art, Violence, and Misogyny
What follows are some postmortem thoughts on David Hadju’s book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. I’ve always been fascinated by this period–the so-called Golden Age of Comics–and have certainly been influenced by many of its artists like Al Williamson and Wally Wood. Most comics fans of a certain age know the story told here already: how a group of misfits at EC Comics managed to produce the most cutting-edge titles of the early 50s
