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From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books

Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry a
eBook, English, 2008
Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2008
Biographies
1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) : color illustrations
9780827610439, 9780827608436, 0827610432, 0827608438
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pt. 1. The Golden Age (1933-1955): the birth of the comics. ch. 1. Famous funnies
ch. 2. Leger and Reuths
ch. 3. Supergolem
ch. 4. Attack of the clones
ch. 5. People of the (comic) book
ch. 6. The spirit of the times
ch. 7. The Leaden Age
ch. 8. Why we fight
ch. 9. New trends and innocent seducers
pt. 2. The Silver Age (1956-1978): the growth and development of Jewish comics. ch. 10. Super family values
ch. 11. Broome makes a clean sweep
ch. 12. Stan and Jack
ch. 13. The superhero from Queens
ch. 14. Courting the college crowd
ch. 15. Outsider heroes
ch. 16. Openly Jewish, openly heroic
ch. 17. Kirby's fourth world
ch. 18. Notes from the underground
ch. 19. From novel graphics to graphic novels
pt. 3. The Bronze Age (1979-the present): comics in the modern world. ch. 20. From comix to graphix
ch. 21. The Maus that art built
ch. 22. A graphic approach to Jewish history
ch. 23. The Martian Jew
ch. 24. Children of the atom
and Eve
ch. 25. Vertigo visions
ch. 26. Up, up, and away
but where to?