TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaplan,Arie
TI  - From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and comic books 
SN  - 9780827610439
AV  - PN6725 .K37 2008eb
U1  - 741.5/973089924 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Jewish Publication Society
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jewish cartoonists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jews
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Juifs
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
KW  - Anthologies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Contemporary Women
KW  - Crime & Mystery
KW  - Erotica
KW  - Fantasy
KW  - Horror
KW  - Gay & Lesbian
KW  - Historical Fiction
KW  - Literary
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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?
N2  - Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry a
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