The story behind the censorship and destruction of the comic book during the 1940s and '50s has received little coverage. The dynamics behind the tale are nothing new; as the above-quoted author has noted, repression in America typically progresses from the attempted persuasion of society's sinners, to the prohibition of their activities, and finally to the invoking of state powers. David Hajdu has brilliantly recounted this unfortunate cycle in his masterpiece of cultural analysis, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America.