Black History Month: Show your African American & African covers. 5 5

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[Bo_Hogg]

What is Justice and the Observer all about?

 

That 9.8 Fast Willie Jackson is unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Great copy! One of the highest graded! Seems most of these have brittle pages...

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Just... WOW.... . Double Un PC whammy. Historical artifacts.

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Classic title...

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E.W. Kemble

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[porcupine48]

Boot,you always knock it out of the park!That last promotional is my fave...I think...

[Bo_Hogg]

 

 

1970 parody comic. It says that Nancy from Nancy and Sluggo has a natural!!!!

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Boot, Boot, Boot.....

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Just... WOW.... . Double Un PC whammy. Historical artifacts.

 

Probably not the place to discuss it, but I always thought that Charlie Chan was an interesting character. Obviously, particularly in the movies, he spoke with a stereotypical Asian accent and I can see people objecting to his having been played by two Caucasian actors (Warner Oland and Sydney Toler).

 

But, although the movies had their comic elements (mostly groan worthy to modern audiences), they were basically legit mystery stories with the Chan character as the hero with whom, presumably, the (mostly white) audiences were expected to identify.

 

And the plots typically involved Chan outwitting the, again mostly white, bad guys.

 

It's difficult to imagine similar movies being made for a mass audience in the 1930s and 1940s with the detective being black. Artifacts of the times for sure, but a long way, imo, from, say, Amos and Andy.

[sagii]

Just... WOW.... . Double Un PC whammy. Historical artifacts.

 

Probably not the place to discuss it, but I always thought that Charlie Chan was an interesting character. Obviously, particularly in the movies, he spoke with a stereotypical Asian accent and I can see people objecting to his having been played by two Caucasian actors (Warner Oland and Sydney Toler).

 

But, although the movies had their comic elements (mostly groan worthy to modern audiences), they were basically legit mystery stories with the Chan character as the hero with whom, presumably, the (mostly white) audiences were expected to identify.

 

And the plots typically involved Chan outwitting the, again mostly white, bad guys.

 

It's difficult to imagine similar movies being made for a mass audience in the 1930s and 1940s with the detective being black. Artifacts of the times for sure, but a long way, imo, from, say, Amos and Andy.

Spot on analysis. I've always wondered what 'place' the character in all of his carnations holds with Asian Americans today.

[Tri-Color Brian]

 

[pemart1966]

E.W. Kemble

 

 

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[Hepcat]

 

I be getting a box next time I be at de grocery store!

 

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I be getting a box next time I be at de grocery store!

 

 

Dr Love,

Is that a subscription-only back cover? There's a Tom Mix 4 on eBay now but it does not have that back cover, something more pedestrian (and full-page, hence my speculation that they used their own half-page house ad for sub copies to have space for the postal info and address. Am I correct?)