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Introduction: "An Apt Cartoon" / Qiana Whitted

Part I: Iconographies of Race and Racism: Rose O'Neill and Visual Tropes of Blackness / Ian Gordon

The Passing Fancies of Krazy Kat / Nicholas Sammond

"How Else Could I Have Created a Black Boy in That Era?": Racial Caricature and Will Eisner's Legacy / Andrew J. Kunka

Part II: Formal Innovation and Aesthetic Range: Desegragating Black Genealogies: An Inviation / Rebecca Wanzo

Misdirections in Matt Baker's Phantom Lady / Chris Gavaler and Monalesia Earle

The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth / Blair Davis

"Hello Public!": Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the Pittsburgh Courier / Eli Boonin-Vail

Part III: Comics Readership and Respectability Politics: "Never Any Dirty Ones": Comics Readership among African American Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Carol L. Tilley

All Negro Comics and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age / Qiana Whitted

"This Business of White and Black": Captain Marvel's Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett's Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero / Brian Cremins

Al Hollingworth's Kandy: Race, Colorism, and Romance in African American Newspaper Comics / Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd

Part IV: Disrupting Genre, Character, and Convention: Diabolical Master of Black Majic: Examining Agency through Villainy in "The Voodoo Man" / Phillip Lamarr Cunningham

Love in Color: Fawcett's Revolutionary Negro Romance / Jacque Nodell

An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital / Julian C. Chambliss

"For They Were There!": Dell Comics' Lobo and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books / Mike Lemon

Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc. > Social aspects > United States.

African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.

Racism and the arts > United States.

African American cartoonists > History > 20th century.

Walter de Gruyter & Co. Rutgers University Press Complete 2023.