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Minorities in comics pre-1960's: Depiction and/or Participation in comics
narfstar:
This is a book I would contribute to buying for scanning purposes if enough of us could get together
http://cgi.ebay.com/CLEAN-FUN-CGC-7-0-RACIST-COVER-2ND-HGST-GRADE-NR-/370524518004?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5644fb7674
philcom55:
I don't know if you're interested in foreign titles, but here's a curiosity from the 1970s - written, drawn and printed in the UK to be distributed in Nigeria (with artwork by Dave Gibbons and Brian Bolland):
http://i55.tinypic.com/2060g88.jpgOf course, some British comics proper featured a number of outrageous racial caricatures over the years - notably the appalling 'Spadger's Isle' in Wizard!
- Phil Rushton
whalter58:
Wow! Thanks for the great start in my search, guys! Shoogfoots Jones is a new one for me and that Jumbo 105 is fantastic thank you so much.
John C:
I wanted to hold off posting until I could find the issue, but haven't had the time and I don't want to leave it out. But there's a Charlton science-fiction title with a story that basically copies Superman's origin but the entire civilization survives. They settle on a large continent on Earth, which (ahem) "explains" why the Chinese had better technology than the Europeans for centuries, and the evidence is, of course, in their slanted eyes that couldn't possibly have evolved on Earth.
Ohhhh...
(It's technically outside your scope, the Chinese in China not really being definable as a "minority," but I couldn't let that keep me from bringing it up.)
Yoc:
I'd be interested in seeing that story too John.
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