Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World

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AT O M I C C O M I C S B O O K S B Y F E R E N C M O R T O N S Z A S Z The Divided Mind of Protestant America, 1880–1930 (1982) The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 (1984) The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865–1915 (1988) British Scientists and the Manhattan Project: The Los Alamos Years (1992) Scots in the North American West, 1790–1917 (2000) Religion in the Modern American West (2002) Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century (2008) Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends (2008)  AT O M I C C O M I C S Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World u n i v e r s i t y o f n e v a d a p r e s s r e n o & l a s v e g a s ferenc Morton szasz University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2012 by University of Nevada Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Design by Kathleen Szawiola Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940–2010. Atomic comics : cartoonists confront the nuclear world / Ferenc Morton Szasz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87417-874-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-87417-879-1 (ebook) 1. Comic books, strips, etc.—History and criticism 2. Atomic bomb in literature. 3. Cartoonists. I. Title. PN6714.S97 2012 741.5'358–dc23 2011043536 The paper used in this book is a recycled stock made from 30 percent post-consumer waste materials, certified by FSC, and meets the requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISo z39.48-1992 (R2002). Binding materials were selected for strength and durability. F I R S T P R I N T I N g 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 5 4 3 2 1 Frontispiece: Cover of Atoman #2 (Spark, April 1946)  Margaret; Eric; Chris and Scott; Maria and Jonathan; and Tyler, Sean, and Matthew —all of whom have their own favorite cartoonists. T O T H E FA M I L Y ...