171 Abbie an’ Slats, 90 Abel, Robert, xv Abie the Agent, 88 Action Comics, 69 Adorno, Theodor, xv, 38, 44 Aesop’s stories, 95 Agee, James, xix Allport, Gordon W., 77 Alpert, Barry, xviii Alphonse and Gaston, 88 America, 94, 99 Andersen, Hans Christian, 26, 95, 129 Anti-Semitism, 49, 51, 63, 120, 131–32 Anti-Stalinist left, the, xiv–xv, xviii, 170 Aquaman, 117, 162 Aristotle, 123, 148–49, 151 Arnold, Matthew, xi Art and Illusion, xvii, 81 Art News, xiii Aquinas, Thomas, 106 Atlantic Monthly, ix, 9, 68 Atlas, James, 170 Atomic Mouse, 72 Balzac, Honoré de, 139 Barnaby, 3, 35–36, 65 Barney Google, 92, 134 Barr, Alfred H., 113 Batman, 69, 78, 117, 154, 162 Baudelaire, Charles, 83 Becker, Stephen, xiii Bell, Daniel, 144 Bellow, Saul, 170 Bender, Thomas, viii Bergengren, Ralph, viii, ix, x, xi, 1–2, 9–12, 165 Berlin, Irving, 27 Bernstein, Joseph M., 13, 21 Black Hood, 117 Black Knight, 117 Black Terror, 117 Blackhawk, 117, 120 Blackstone, 117 Blondie, 109, 117 Blue Beatle, 117 Bogart, Humphrey, 90, 142 Bolshevism, 13 Book of Kells, 110 Bowles, Paul, 127–28 Boy Commandos, 117 Bringing Up Father, 109 Brothers Grimm, 126, 129 Brownell, William Cary, xi Broyard, Anatole, 167 Bungle Family, The, 89–90 Bushmiller, Ernie, 89 Cagney, James, 142 Cain, James M., 53 Caniff, Milton, xvi, 91, 93 Capp, Al, 76, 91, 92, 108, 110, 134–37, 144 Captain America, 117 Captain and the Kids, The, 89 Captain Marvel, 69, 75, 117, 120, 123, 127 Captain Midnight, 117 Captain Triumph, 117 Carpenter, John Alden, 24, 27 Carroll, Lewis, 8, 64–65, 101 Catman and Kitten, 117 Celine, Louis-Ferdinand, 60 Censorship, x, xv–xvi, 77–80, 86, 91, 122, 131, 138, 167 Chandler, Raymond, 128, 139 Chaplin, Charlie, 2, 23, 27, 142, 144 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 96 Cheyney, Peter, 158 Chicago Daily News, xv, 118 Children, vii, x, xvi, 1–3, 7, 9–12, 48, 52–62, 67–80, 91, 94, 100, 102–4, 109–10, 112–21, 122–23, 126, 128–29 Christie, Agatha, 158 Clair, Rene, 142 Classics Illustrated, xiv, 52–62 Commentary, xiv, 41, 67, 170 Comstock, Anthony, xiv Cooper, Fenimore, 115 Cooper, Gary, 70, 90 Index Covering Ground: Essays for Now, 134, 138, 169 Cowley, Malcolm, 138 Craig, Johnny, 70, 71 Craven, Thomas, xiii Crime comics, xv–xvi, 54, 67–68, 73, 112, 114–17, 123 Crime Does NOT Pay, 54, 114 CrimeSuspenStories, 67, 68, 71, 73, 76 Cronin, A. J., 63, 129 Cubism, 82 Cullen, Jim, ix–x Cultural studies, ix, xviii, 85–87, 167 Cummings, E. E., xii, xiii, 3, 30–34, 65, 99, 165 Dadaism, 91 Daniels, Les, xvii Daredevil, 162 Daumier, Georg Friedrich, 42 Davenport, Guy, 3 Dawson, Fielding, xviii Death in Venice, 2 Debbie Dean, 88 DeBeck, Billy, 92, 134 Dell Publishing Company, 69, 75–76 DeMille, Cecil, 142 Dewey, John, 97 Dial, The, xii, 2, 7 Dick Tracy, 35, 48, 100, 108, 142, 144 Dickens, Charles, 23, 27, 107, 115 Dickie Dare, 88 Dingbats, The, 22 Dirks, Rudolph, 93 Disney, Walt, and Disney Studio, 87, 91, 94–98, 112–13, 124 Dissent, 166, 169 Doll Man, 117 Don Koyote and Sancho Pansy, 22 Donald Duck, 47, 76 Dos Passos, John, 60 Dostoevsky, Feodor, 47, 52–54, 56, 123 Douglas, Ann, xii Douglas, Lloyd, 129 Dr. Mid-nite, 117 Dr. Strange, 117 Duerer, Albrecht, 15 Duhamel, Georges, 17 Dumas, Alexandre, 115 Dynamic Man, 117 EC Comics, xvii, xix, 70–71 EC Fan-Addict Club, 67, 70–72, 80 Eco, Umberto, ix, xviii, 85–87, 146–64, 165 Eisner, Will, xvii Eliot, George, 60 Eliot, T. S., 2, 142, 169 Ellery Queen, 50 Ellmann, Richard, xii Encounter, 122 Esquire, 170 Fairfield, Sidney, viii, x, xi, 1, 4–6 Family Upstairs, The, 22, 23 Fantastic Four, 162 Farber, Manny, ix, xviii, xix, 85–86, 88–90, 91–93, 165 Fascism, xiv, 38, 41–42, 47, 86, 118–20, 130, 132, 168 Faulkner, William, 53, 122, 127, 129, 130 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), xvi, 114, 116, 118 Feiffer, Jules, xvii Fiedler, Leslie, ix, xviii, 85–87, 122–33, 166 Flash, 120, 162 Flash Gordon, 35 Ford, John, 142 Frankfurt School, xv, 38 Fraser, James George, 86 Fraternal Order of Police, xvi Freud, Sigmund, 53, 86, 117, 124, 129 Gaines, William, xvii, 70–71, 73–74, 79 Gasoline Alley, xii, 142 Gene Autry, 69 Genteel tradition, 1–2, 109, 129, 131 Giammanco, Roberto, 154 Gide, André, 60 Ginsberg, Allen, 167 Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, x Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von...