David Hajdu on Bart Beaty’s Response To His Book, The Ten-Cent Plague

I'd like to thank Bart Beaty for giving my book, The Ten-Cent Plague, his serious attention. I respect Dr. Beaty as a colleague in scholarship and education, despite the considerable differences in our views on some matters.

In his review of my book, he asked about a statistic I cite regarding Timely/Atlas/Marvel. It comes from The Encylopedia of American Comics, by Ron Goulart, p. 227:

"By 1952, [Stan] Lee was running the largest comic book company in terms of sales, in the world; it was 50% larger than second-place Dell and twice as big ast third-place DC."

I'm going to request that my publisher add a footnote for that data in the paperback edition of the book. If any readers of The Comics Report[er] have hard information to the contrary, I would be grateful if they'd let me know.

On Fredric Wertham... well... I have had my say, and Dr. Beaty has had his. I am proud of my work on the subject, just as Dr. Beaty is proud of his.
 
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