From Krakow to Krypton
Subtitle: Jews and comic books
By: Arie Kaplan.
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780827608436
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; Jewish cartoonists -- United States -- Biography; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Golden Age (1933-1955): the birth of the comics. ch. 1. Famous funnies; title: ch. 2. Leger and Reuths; title: ch. 3. Supergolem; title: ch. 4. Attack of the clones; title: ch. 5. People of the (comic) book; title: ch. 6. The spirit of the times; title: ch. 7. The Leaden Age; title: ch. 8. Why we fight; title: ch. 9. New trends and innocent seducers; title: pt. 2. The Silver Age (1956-1978): the growth and development of Jewish comics. ch. 10. Super family values; title: ch. 11. Broome makes a clean sweep; title: ch. 12. Stan and Jack; title: ch. 13. The superhero from Queens; title: ch. 14. Courting the college crowd; title: ch. 15. Outsider heroes; title: ch. 16. Openly Jewish, openly heroic; title: ch. 17. Kirby's fourth world; title: ch. 18. Notes from the underground; title: ch. 19. From novel graphics to graphic novels; title: pt. 3. The Bronze Age (1979-the present): comics in the modern world. ch. 20. From comix to graphix; title: ch. 21. The Maus that art built; title: ch. 22. A graphic approach to Jewish history; title: ch. 23. The Martian Jew; title: ch. 24. Children of the atom; title: and Eve; title: ch. 25. Vertigo visions; title: ch. 26. Up, up, and away; title: but where to?