Adventure Comics
date: label: date made
content: Sept./Oct. 1978
notes: label: Description
content: “The Case of the Fortune Cookie Fortune” : In this first issue of Adventure Comics, The Elongated Man’s story opens up in a high-end Chinese restaurant whose servers are exclusively all white males. The white blue-eyed female picks up one of the fortune cookies to find a $1000 bill enclosed. In The Elongated Man’s pursuit to identifying the source of the $1000 bill, he is eventually led to Benny Maxwell, who distributed his $30,000 through fortune cookies to make up for his past crime. Here, the fortune cookie is symbolic of ‘good’, as it used as a vessel to correct a white man’s sins.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3057.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3057
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3057.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 in x 1/8 in; 26.035 cm x 17.78 cm x .3175 cm