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Into the Jungle! TPB (2023 UPoM) A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II comic books

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    Tags: Comic Strip Reprints
    Published Feb 2023 by University Press of Mississippi.
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    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.