The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu. While the primary focus of the book is the creation of the Comics Code Authority and the events leading up to it, including comic book burnings and congressional hearings, the book also serves as a history of the industry to an extent from its influences in newspaper strips up through the mid-50s. The anecdotes from various creators about the industry and the people they worked with are very interesting. The war on comics is kind of depressing and shouldn't be too surprising to people since video games and other things have been targeted in more recent years, though not to the same extent. It might get a bit too bogged down at times in some of the sections, but is a very good read.