Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1259293472

Responsibility statement

by Jay Jackson ; introduction by Jeet Heer

Series statement

New York Review comics

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

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