Summary
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
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681376653 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681376652 |
| Author: | Jay Jackson |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 165mm |
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Critics Review
“Featuring page after page of non-stop action and pulpy melodrama imbued with Jackson’s perspective as a Black American in the 1940s, this is a work of immense historical value that’s also very fun to read.” – Library Journal starred review
About The Author
Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson (1905-1954) was a prolific artist and cartoonist whose work appeared for many years in the Black newspaper The Chicago Defender, among numerous other publications. Before he began his cartooning career, he hammered spikes for a railroad, labored in a steel mill, started a short-lived sign-painting business, and even had a brief career as an amateur boxer. In the late 1940s, Jackson moved with his family from Chicago to Los Angeles, where he resided for the remainder of his life.
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