Comic Books and America, Nineteen Forty-Five to Nineteen Fifty-Four FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Comics were as popular and prolific in the period discussed in this book as films were the decade before and television would be the decade after; despite this, there are no serious academic studies that do more than give comics a token mention. Savage covers all the comics published in the era (as a result the study is very general, though amply footnoted), and shows how markedly they reflected both the incredible arrogance of postwar America and the incredible neurosis about Communism and ``the Bomb.'' An excellent beginning to what should some day be a serious body of work on the subject. Recommended for subject collections. See also Denis Gifford's American Comic Strip Collections, 1848-1939 , reviewed in this issue, p. 70.--Ed.-- Keith R.A. DeCandido, ``Library Journal''
Booknews
Cultural historian Savage (U. of Oklahoma) examines comic books as a reflection of the contemporary concerns of the American public in the confusion during the ten years following World War II. Five representative stories are reproduced, albeit in low-quality b&w. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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