The Brooklyn Thrill-kill Gang And The Great Comic Book Scare Of The 1950s
by Mariah Adin /
2013 / English / Kindle
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What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency.
Tells a fascinating true crime story involving murder, juvenile delinquency, secret sexualities, and obscene comic books from a time in American history often portrayed as idyllic and innocent
Provides revealing insights into the anxieties of the post-Holocaust Jewish-American community
Supplies a new angle on the Great Comic Book Scare and the anti-comics movement
Based on original, archival research using materials that have never been published