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Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos / by Jay Jackson ; introduction by Jeet Heer.

Jackson, Jay, 1905-1954 (author,, artist.). Heer, Jeet, (writer of introduction.).

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781681376653
  • ISBN: 1681376652
  • Physical Description: 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This is a New York Review Comic" -- title page verso.
Subject: African American superheroes > Comic books, strips, etc.
Racism > Comic books, strips, etc.
Time travel > Comic books, strips, etc.
Genre: Superhero comics.
Science fiction comics.
Action and adventure comics.
Underground comics.
Comics (Graphic works)

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at SPARK Libraries. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Boyertown Community Library JAC (Text) 33249024851531 Adult Graphic Novel Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults 741.5 JAC Nonfiction (Text) 34001001431905 Adult Area Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 741.5 JAC 2022 (Text) 31001101874585 Adult Non Fiction Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library 741.5 J135 (Text) 30003009130665 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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