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Informationen zum Autor QIANA WHITTED is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is the author of A God of Justice?: The Problem of Evil in 20th Century Black Literature . Klappentext During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in the so-called ""preachies"", socially conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice. Zusammenfassung During its heyday in the 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in socially conscious stories challenging the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice. Winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface A) Introduction: The Preachies 1: Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions How to Read an EC Magazine 2: We Pictured Him So Different, Joey! Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC 3: Oh God...Sob...What Have I Done...? Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice 4: Battling, in the Sea of Comics EC's Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of "Judgment Day!" B) Conclusion: Hence We See Justice Triumph! Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
