There were thousands of comic books banned and burned in the America of the 1950's, but here we have what may well have been the only one treated that way by military order. The Army spent $17,544 on 500,000 copies of this book. Senator Capehart (R-Indiana) denounced this issue as "Socialist propaganda", and the 6th Army, stationed at Fort Ord, California, ordered several hundred copies of the book (in unopened packages) burned.
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