Into the Jungle! TPB (2023 UPoM) A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II comic books 2023
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Tags: Comic Strip ReprintsPublished Feb 2023 by University Press of Mississippi.$8.00
$8.00
1st printing.
Story and art by Jimmy Kugler. Compiled with an Introduction by Michael Kugler.
Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father's adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era.
Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels.
Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 224 pages, B&W.
Cover price $25.00.