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The comicbook war was one of the first and hardestfought. Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the algerian coastal city of oran. Prior to the investigation, comics were expanding at an amazing pace. As he did with the lives of billy strayhorn and duke ellington in lush life and bob dylan and his circle in positively 4th street, hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life. The plague during the great northern war falls within the second pandemic, which by the late 17th century had its final recurrence in western europe e. Listen to the tencent plague the great comicbook scare and how it changed america by david hajdu available from rakuten kobo. The ten cent plague is the third book by david hajdu to take a subject suitable for fans hagiography and turn it into something of much wider interest.