From Aargh! to Zap! Harvey Kurtzman’s Visual History of the Comics #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis volume collects Harvey Kurtzman's ambitious survey of comic art history, originally serialized in the early 1990s. The legendary Mad and Humbug editor traces the medium's evolution from early newspaper strips through underground comix, offering his personal and insightful commentary on key creators and milestones. It serves as both a historical overview and a testament to Kurtzman's influential perspective on the art form.
In the aftermath of World War II, a fugitive former commander of Belsen Concentration Camp flees across Europe and into America, haunted by the memory of a single inmate who vowed revenge. Years later, his terror comes to a head when he encounters that man face-to-face on a train, the weight of his past finally catching up.
In "Big 'If'!", a wounded soldier lies by the roadside, his final thoughts drifting to the tiny shift in position that might have spared him—what if he’d been just a step to the left when the explosion tore through the field? The story unfolds in quiet, poignant detail, capturing a moment of reflection where one split-second change could have rewritten everything.
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↩ Reprints The Spirit #10/6/1946 (1946), Frontline Combat #5 (1952), Mad #4 (1953), Impact #1 (1955), Humbug #5 (1957), Zap Comix #2 (1968), National Lampoon Magazine #84 (1977)
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