<div dir="auto">The book has been claimed, thank you.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 9:31 AM Mike Rhode <<a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com">mrhode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt">I apologize to Leonard for the delay in offering this book - I had a complete computer meltdown in July which entailed factory resets, and so some things I had open to deal w/ got forgotten. I have a digital version of this book, available immediately - for the first person to write to me directly<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt">Mike Rhode</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mrhode@gmail.com</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt">Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the <span>Korean</span> <span>War</span>,
 as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with 
events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics 
industry, America's "forgotten <span>war</span>," and the 
anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who 
criticized their brutalization of the imagination. Comics--both 
newsstand offerings and government propaganda--used fictions to justify 
the unpopular <span>war</span> as necessary and moral. This book examines the dramatization of events and issues, including the <span>war</span>'s origins, germ warfare, brainwashing, Cold <span>War</span> espionage, the nuclear threat, African Americans in the military, mistreatment of POWs, and atrocities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">Perhaps I should clarify (as I do in my book)  that Wertham criticized comic books, not just <span>war</span> comics, for their “brutalization of the imagination.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">Here’s my Table of Contents: </span></p><p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-align:left" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">0. Preface</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">PART ONE: COMIC BOOKS AND THE <span>KOREAN</span> <span>WAR</span></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Introduction</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Realism, Harm, and Responsibility</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Business</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Strips</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">World <span>War</span> II</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kurtzman</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>7.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Critics</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ILLUSTRATIONS</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">PART TWO: THE <span>KOREAN</span> <span>WAR</span> IN COMIC BOOKS</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>8.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Origins</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>9.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Spies</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>10.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">African Americans</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>11.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Germs</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>12.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Brainwashing</span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>13.<span style="font:7pt "Times New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