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Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos
- Title
- Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos / by Jay Jackson ; introduction by Jeet Heer.
- Author
- Jackson, Jay, 1905-1954
- Publication
- New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2022]
- ©2022
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Heer, Jeet
- Description
- 181 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Meet Bungleton Green--an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero created more than a decade before characters like Black Panther and Falcon. In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson--a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper The Chicago Defender--did something unexpected. He took the Defender's stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green and remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science fiction adventure comic. He teamed the bumbling Green with a crew of Black teens called the Mystic Commandos, and together, they battled the enemies of America and racial equality in the past, present, and future. Nazis, segregationist senators, Benedict Arnold, fifth columnists, 18th-century American slave traders, evil scientists, and a nation of racist Green Men all faced off against the Mystic Commandos and Green, who in the strip's run would be transformed by Jackson into the first-ever Black superhero. Never before collected or republished, Jackson's stories are packed with jaw-dropping twists and breathtaking action, and present a radical vision of a brighter American future"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review comics
- Uniform Title
- Chicago defender.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Superhero fiction.
- adventure story comics.
- underground comics.
- Superhero comics.
- Science fiction comics.
- Action and adventure comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Underground comics.
- Note
- "This is a New York Review Comic" -- title page verso.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-246
- ISBN
- 9781681376653
- 1681376652
- LCCN
- 2021029469
- OCLC
- 1259293472
- Author
- Jackson, Jay, 1905-1954, author, artist.
- Title
- Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos / by Jay Jackson ; introduction by Jeet Heer.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review comics
- Added Author
- Heer, Jeet, writer of introduction.
- Added Title
- Chicago defender.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-246