Comic Books and Thrill-Killers? An Interview with Mariah Adin
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07/18/15
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(Elizabeth and Mariah) This week, Elizabeth interviews Mariah Adin about her book The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s to explore why juvenile delinquency kept so many parents up at night in the US in the 1950s. Were comic books leading kids to lives of crime?
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