From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books
Arie Kaplan (Author)
"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 as a whole."--pub. desc
Print Book, English, 2008
First edition View all formats and editions
Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2008
collective biographies
xv, 225 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
9780827608436, 0827608438
191207851
pt. 1: The Golden Age (1933-1955): the birth of the comics
Famous funnies
Leger and Reuths
Supergolem
Attack of the clones
People of the (comic) book
The spirit of the times
The Leaden Age
Why we fight
New trends and innocent seducers
pt. 2: The Silver Age (1956-1978): the growth and development of Jewish comics
Super family values
Broome makes a clean sweep
Stan and Jack
The superhero from Queens
Courting the college crowd
Outsider heroes
Openly Jewish, openly heroic
Kirby's fourth world
Notes from the underground
From novel graphics to graphic novels
pt. 3: The Bronze Age (1979-the present): comics in the modern world
From comix to graphix
The Maus that art built
A graphic approach to Jewish history
The Martian Jew
Children of the atom
and Eve
Vertigo visions
Up, up, and away
but where to?