Nope, not Mark Evanier’s big Kirby tome that surprisingly no one is really talking about.

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by American cultural historian David Hajdu takes a look at the federal probe into the supposed “negative effects” of comic books on kids that took place during the early to mid 50s, and eventually gave rise to the Comics Code Authority.

Apparently it’s pretty good.

In a stroke of needless melodrama, Mr. Hajdu frames the comics’ collapse with a prologue glimpse of one artist whose career was extinguished: Janice Valleau Winkleman, who for 50 years never told anyone, even her daughter, that she had once had a career in comics. She warrants Mr. Hajdu’s sympathy and admiration. But the events recounted in “The Ten-Cent Plague” need no such histrionics. On its own, this book tells an amazing story, with thrills and chills more extreme than the workings of a comic book’s imagination.

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