America comic books issue 1

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Vol. 1, No. 1 - March 1952. 5.25" x 8.5", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Written by John Ridley. Art and cover by Georges Jeanty & Karl Story. Reprints American Way #1 (2006). The 1960s were a decade of incredible change for America. It was a time of innocence. It was a time of optimism. It was a time of heroes. In the early '40s, the United States government hatched a plan to create the Civil Defense Corps: a group of 'super-heroes' who could fight alien invasions, evil super-powered beings, and communism, all in front of an adoring public, courtesy of television. But that dream was far from reality by the '60s, as new C.D.C. Marketing Director Wesley Catham is about to discover. How far will America go to protect its dream of a better tomorrow? 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $1.00.

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1st Printing - Written by Warren Dotz and Jim Morton, photography by John William Land. From Mr. Clean to Mr. Bubble, from the wholesome Quaker Oats Man to the mischievous Trix Rabbit, advertising characters are as much a part of 20th century America as the familiar products they symbolize. Illustrated with vivid full color photographs, and accompanied by fascinating text, this fanciful volume offers an entertaining look at history and design of these pop-culture icons, with their timeless appeal for consumers of all ages. Softcover, 132 pages, full color. Cover price $16.95.

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1st printing. Written by Wendy Deacon and Anthony J. Lee. Art by Devin Taylor and Tomato Farm. This Level 1 World of Reading storybook about Captain America features all new art and story. Young readers will learn about both super-heroes who have carried the mantle of Captain America: Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers. This storybook tells the origin stories of both Avengers and then teams them up for an incredible adventure. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-ini., 32 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $5.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Edel Rodriguez. Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or "worms," leave the country. Edel's family's vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. Before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family's displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 304 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.