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EC Comics : Race, Shock, and Social Protest /
Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company's other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of com...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Comics Culture
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Preachies
- Chapter One. "Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions": How to Read an EC Magazine
- Chapter Two. "We Pictured Him So Different, Joey!": Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC
- Chapter Three. "Oh God . . . Sob! . . . What Have I Done . . . ?": Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice
- Chapter four. "Battling, in the Sea of Comics": EC's Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of "Judgment Day!"
- Conclusion. "Hence We See Justice Triumph!"
- Appendix: Annotations of Key EC Titles
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the authors