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From
Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books. By Arie Kaplan.
Foreword by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman. Philadelphia: The Jewish
Publication Society, 2008. 240pp.
Paperback: ISBN-10: 0827608438 ||
ISBN-13: 978-0827608436
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Library of Congress: PN6725 .K37 2008
Dewey: 741.5/973089924 22
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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.
Over-sized and in full color, From Krakow to Krypton is
filled with sidebars, cartoon bubbles, comic book graphics, original
design sketches, and photographs. It is a visually stunning and
exhilarating history.
Table of Contents [PDF 720KB]
Foreword by Harvey Pekar ... x
Introduction ... xiv [PDF 2MB]
Part One: The Golden Age
(1933–1955) The Birth of the Comics
Chapter 1: Famous Funnies ... 2 [PDF 3MB]
Chapter 2: Leger and Reuths ... 6
Chapter 3: Supergolem ... 9
Chapter 4: Attack of the Clones ... 21
Chapter 5: People of the (Comic) Book ... 26
Chapter 6: The Spirit of the Times ... 32
Chapter 7: The Leaden Age ... 44
Chapter 8: Why We Fight ... 58
Chapter 9: New Trends and Innocent Seducers ... 63
Part Two: The Silver Age
(1956–1978) The Growth and Development of Jewish Comics
Chapter 10: Super Family Values ... 84
Chapter 11: Broome Makes a Clean Sweep ... 87
Chapter 12: Stan and Jack ... 92
Chapter 13: The Superhero from Queens ... 101
Chapter 14: Courting the College Crowd ... 107
Chapter 15: Outsider Heroes ... 111
Chapter 16: Openly Jewish, Openly Heroic ... 116
Chapter 17: Kirby’s Fourth World ... 126
Chapter 18: Notes from the Underground ... 137
Chapter 19: From Novel Graphics to Graphic Novels ... 151
Part Three: The Bronze Age
(1979–the Present) Comics in the Modern World
Chapter 20: From Comix to Graphix ... 162
Chapter 21: The Maus That Art Built ... 171
Chapter 22: A Graphic Approach to Jewish History ... 176
Chapter 23: The Martian Jew ... 188
Chapter 24: Children of the Atom … And Eve ... 196
Chapter 25: Vertigo Visions ... 203
Chapter 26: Up, Up, And Away… But Where To? ... 206
Comics History Timeline ... 212
Bibliography ... 216
Index ... 218 [PDF 2MB]
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