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First, there were the book burnings. In Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for example, Girl Scouts went house to house rounding up comics for the bonfire. Hajdu visited the tiny town and uncovered a cabal of former schoolboys who had secretly rescued a box of Jungle Comics — “all seven deadly sins,” he laughs, “swinging toward you on a vine in a leopard-skin bikini” — and hid them under a stairway. Vive la résistance! (via The Cold War-Era Assault on Comic Book Culture, Revisited)


