I know a lot of your TNL guys are fans of comics, I myself never got into them. However this book is full of awesome and is right up most of your alleys.

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Hardcover)

Basically it's about censorship and comics back in the day, not going into any detail here, read the book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374187673