The Comic-stripped American: What Dick Tracy, Blondie, Daddy Warbucks and Charlie Brown Tell Us About Ourselves

Forewordbr> Introductionbr> The Comic Page, Values and American Societybr> PART I. THE THE FIRST GENERATION OF COMICSbr> The Yellow Urban Poverty in the Good Old Daysbr> The Katzenjammer Infantile Disorders of the Left and Right and Centerbr> Mutt and The Politics of Failurebr> Krazy The Social Dimension of Fantasybr> PART II. THE MODERN AGE THE SECOND GEERATION--OR AFTER THE FALL!br> Little Orphan The Abandoned Yearsbr> Buck The New Renaissance Hero of the Space Epicsbr> The Irrelevance of the American Husbandbr> Dick The Avenger--Evangelical Protestant Stylebr> Flash The Triumph of the Democratic Willbr> Batman and the Archaic The Aristocrat as Reformer br> Pogo and His Friends in the Okefenokke A Study in the Irony of Democracybr> The Americanization of Augustinebr> PART III. THE AGE OF THE THIRD GENERATION OF COMICSbr> Marvel Machines, Monster, and the Myth of Americabr> Or "What Are You Doing with That Submachine Gun, Barbarella?"br> Mr. Natural and His Friends From the Infantile Disorders of the Cerebellum and the Crotch.br>