New Señorita Rio, Latina Bombshell Comics from Pappy's Golden Age Blog

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Wild Letty, Girl of the Swamp and Bayou or Eet ees jaws ah comeek book, Stereotypes in Comics Edition

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories

a REMARKABLE graphic narrative resource!

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Manhunt #13 {A-1 #63} from 1952
Art by Ogden Whitney, Paul Parker, 
L.B. Cole & Fritz

More Thievin' Mesicans! Graphic Reminders of Popular Culture Visions of the "Mexican" in America

I really enjoy the remarkable archive-work being done over at Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine--bloggers like Pappy are our 21st century librarians, sharing a graphic hoard that reveals a gnarly, complicated past. Pappy's words from the post where I gleaned the comics below are well-chosen and apt: "Some of the artwork is very good, but some is crude, some of the stories even cruder. There are racist depictions of Mexicans and at least one ugly page of caricatured black people. For those I apologize, with the excuse that it was the way things were done in those days, without regard to any offense they might cause." While appreciated, the excuse here is unnecessary--in my view, for what it is worth, it's only by understanding how racist representation infuses popular entertainment that one arrives at a fuller understanding of our nation's legacy and destiny. On with the comics!

Tricky "Mexicans" in "Stolen Gold"

 "Mexicans" Enslave Shirtless Caucasians in "Valley of Living Death"

More Outrageous Pulp Magazine Meditations on Race or Technicolor "I don't need no steenkin badges" Portraits of "Mexicans"

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More Artifacts from the History of Racialized "Entertainment" in the United States

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Amazing Film Noir Poster Posting

GILDA and TOUCH OF EVIL are just two of the film classics available here in a new posting at the Golden Age Comics blog--an amazing semiotic resource for cultural studies researchers, collectors, and film mavens alike. Hit the images above for larger peeks at these graphic classics.