{"id":1356,"date":"2012-11-04T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T22:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2012-11-04T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T22:24:25","slug":"the-10-cent-plague-history-of-the-seduction-of-the-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-history\/the-10-cent-plague-history-of-the-seduction-of-the-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Cent Plague &#8211; History of the Seduction of the Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do comic books contribute to juvenile delinquency?<\/p>\n<p>Spearheaded by Dr. Frederic Wertham and his infamous book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/159683000X\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=159683000X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=skytechenterp-20\">Seduction of the Innocent<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=skytechenterp-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=159683000X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8221; the U.S. Congress conducted hearings on this very subject.<\/p>\n<p>Author David Hadju&#8217;s book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312428235\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0312428235&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=skytechenterp-20\">The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=skytechenterp-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0312428235\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8221; delves into the subject.  He talks about the book and the 1950&#8217;s scare in the video below.  Definitely a must read for comic book collectors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=skytechenterp-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0312428235&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BlpKbKZWBo0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While your at it, you might as well pick up a copy of the original book itself!<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=skytechenterp-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=159683000X&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do comic books contribute to juvenile delinquency? Spearheaded by Dr. Frederic Wertham and his infamous book &#8220;Seduction of the Innocent&#8221; the U.S. Congress conducted hearings on this very subject. Author David Hadju&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America&#8221; delves into the subject. He talks about the book and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-history\/the-10-cent-plague-history-of-the-seduction-of-the-innocent\/\">Read the rest of this entry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-book-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}