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Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos
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ISBN10: 1681376652
ISBN13: 9781681376653
Publisher: New York Review Comics
Published: Dec 13 2022
Pages: 184
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781681376653
Publisher: New York Review Comics
Published: Dec 13 2022
Pages: 184
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Meet Bungleton Green--an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero, created more than a decade before characters such as 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 bum- bling 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, eighteenth- 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.
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