Description: The story of how the comic book industry anticipated the fight against fascism and helped sustain America's war effort
Brief description: Trischa Goodnow is professor of speech communication in the School of Arts and Communication at Oregon State University and has published books on parliamentary debate and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Review Quotes: The 10 Cent War revisits the iconic conventions of the World War II comic book--the pin-up girl heroine, the demonized Japanese antagonist, and the titular male superhero and his boyish-but-stalwart sidekick--and demonstrates that everything we think we already know about Golden Age comics needs reassessment. The contributing scholars provide fascinating close-readings of both famous and obscure works, placing them in historical context and showing that these 'funnybooks' still have much to teach us about war, propaganda, and race and gender relations that remains relevant to our own time.--Marc DiPaolo, author of War, Politics, and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film