[Comicsstudiessociety] Available for review worldwide - Korean War Comic Books by Leonard Rifas

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been claimed, thank you.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 9:31 AM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Mike Rhode
>
> mrhode at gmail.com
>
>
>
> Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean
> War, 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 war," 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 war as
> necessary and moral. This book examines the dramatization of events and
> issues, including the war's origins, germ warfare, brainwashing, Cold War
> espionage, the nuclear threat, African Americans in the military,
> mistreatment of POWs, and atrocities.
>
> Perhaps I should clarify (as I do in my book)  that Wertham criticized
> comic books, not just war comics, for their “brutalization of the
> imagination.”
>
> Here’s my Table of Contents:
>
> 0. Preface
>
> PART ONE: COMIC BOOKS AND THE KOREAN WAR
>
> 1.       Introduction
>
> 2.       Realism, Harm, and Responsibility
>
> 3.       The Business
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> 4.       Strips
>
> 5.       World War II
>
> 6.       Kurtzman
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> 7.       Critics
>
> ILLUSTRATIONS
>
> PART TWO: THE KOREAN WAR IN COMIC BOOKS
>
> 8.       Origins
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> 9.       Spies
>
> 10.   African Americans
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> 11.   Germs
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> 12.   Brainwashing
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> 13.   POW!
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> 14.   Griping
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> 15.   Atrocities
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> 16.   Politics
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> 17.   Nuclear
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> 18.   Subversives
>
> 19.   The Korean War in Comics Since 1953
>
> Conclusion
>
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