The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s
The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s by Mariah Adin
English | December 9, 2014 | ISBN: 1440833729, ASIN: B00PCPZZFS | AZW3 | 167 pages | 0.5 MB
English | December 9, 2014 | ISBN: 1440833729, ASIN: B00PCPZZFS | AZW3 | 167 pages | 0.5 MB
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