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The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s (Hardcover)
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The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s (Hardcover)
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What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go
on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides
a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a
U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing
months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and
millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954,
America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this
environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three
teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their
heinous crimes and achieved notoriety. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill
Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s exposes the
underbelly of America's mid-century, the terrible price of
assimilation, the uncomfortable bedfellows of comic books and
juvenile delinquency, and the dystopia already in bloom amongst
American youth well before the 1960s. Readers will be engrossed and
horrified by the tale of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang whose
shocking, front-page story could easily have been copy-pasted from
today's online news sites. Author Mariah Adin takes readers along
for a breathtaking moment-by-moment retelling of the crime spree,
the subsequent interrogations, and the dramatic courtroom showdown,
interspersed with expository chapters on juvenile delinquency,
America's Jewish community in the post-Holocaust period, and the
anti-comics movement. This book serves to merge the history of
juvenile delinquency with that of the Great Comic Book Scare,
highlights the assimilation of immigrants into America's white
mainstream gone wrong, and complicates our understanding of
America's "Golden Age." Tells a fascinating true crime story
involving murder, juvenile delinquency, secret sexualities, and
obscene comic books from a time in American history often portrayed
as idyllic and innocent Provides revealing insights into the
anxieties of the post-Holocaust Jewish-American community Supplies
a new angle on the Great Comic Book Scare and the anti-comics
movement Based on original, archival research using materials that
have never been published
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