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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitted, Qiana J., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Comics culture.
Temas:
EC Comics > History.
EC Comics.
University of South Alabama
1900-1999
Comic books, strips, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Social problems in literature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature and society.
Comiczeitschrift
Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea: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

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