From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Jewish Publication Society,
[2008]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?