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Kaplan, Arie.

From Krakow to Krypton Jews and comic books / [electronic resource] : Arie Kaplan. - 1st ed. - Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2008. - xiv, 225 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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?


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2010.
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Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.--United States
Jewish cartoonists--United States--Biography.
Jews--Intellectual life.--United States


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