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03914aam a2200457 i 4500 001 E9154D72F93011ED9B9A064150ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230523010241 008 221205s2023 msua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022051840 020 $a 1496842820 020 $a 9781496842824 020 $a 1496842812 020 $a 9781496842817 035 $a (OCoLC)1316776236 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nb 050 00 $a D745.2 $b .K845 2023 082 00 $a 940.5302/07 $2 23/eng/20221207 100 1 $a Kugler, Jimmy, $d 1932-1969, $e author. 245 10 $a Into the jungle! : $b a boy's comic strip history of World War II / $c Jimmy Kugler ; compiled with an introduction by Michael Kugler. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2023] 300 $a xi, 236 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Cultures of childhood 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Index. $t Introduction -- $t Chapter one: What started the war -- $t Chapter two: The fall of Frogington -- $t Chapter three: The fate of a Toad convoy -- $t Chapter four: The battles of Toadajima -- $t Chapter five: The fall of Eagle Island -- $t Conclusion -- $t Notes -- $t Bibliography -- $t Index. 520 $a "Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts. The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic strips from America's small-town Midwest is remarkable. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father's adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels. Kugler emphasizes how US propaganda intended to inspire patriotic support for the war gave this young artist a license for his imagined violence. In a context of progressive American educational reform, these violent comic stories, often in settings modeled on the artist's small Nebraska town, suggests a form of adolescent rebellion against moral conventions consistent with comic art's reputation for "outsider" or countercultural expressions. Kugler also argues that these comics provide evidence for the transition in American taste from war stories to the horror comics of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kugler's thorough analysis of his father's adolescent art explains how a small-town boy from the plains distilled the popular culture of his day for an imagined war he could fight on his audacious, even shocking terms"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Caricatures and cartoons. 650 0 $a Cartoonists $z Nebraska. 650 7 $a Cartoonists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00848081 651 7 $a Nebraska. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208998 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a Caricatures and cartoons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423691 700 1 $a Kugler, Michael $q (Michael James), $e writer of introduction. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kugler, Jimmy. $t Into the jungle! $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023 $z 9781496842831 $w (DLC) 2022051841 830 0 $a Cultures of childhood. 941 $a 1 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525042020.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E9154D72F93011ED9B9A064150ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search