From Krakow to Krypton Jews and comic books /

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Main Author: Kaplan, Arie
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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?