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Author:

Cy, 1990- artist. artist.

Title:

Radium girls / author, Cy ; English lettering, E.K. Weaver ; English translation by, Ivanka Hahnenberger.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Iron Circus Comics,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

135 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

United States Radium Corporation--Comic books, strips, etc.
Watch dial painters--History--United States--History--Comic books, strips, etc.
Women employees--Diseases--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
Radium paint--Toxicology--Comic books, strips, etc.
Industrial hygiene--United States--History--20th century--Comic books, strips, etc.
World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Nonfiction comics.

Other Authors:

Weaver, E. K., letterer.
Hahnenberger, Ivanka, translator.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918. It's 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the "Ghost Girls." The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clings to their clothes after every shift painting watch dials. The soft, greenish glow even stains their lips and tongues, which they use to point the fine brushes used in their work. It's perfectly harmless... or so claims the watch manufacturer. When teeth start falling out, followed by jawbones, the dial painters become the unprepared vanguard on the frontlines of the burgeoning workers' rights movement. Desperate for compensation and acknowledgement from the company that has doomed them, the Ghost Girls must fight, not just for their own lives but the future of every woman to follow them.

ISBN:

9781945820991
1945820993

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1267686830

Locations:

BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

VTPD454 -- Cresco Public Library (Cresco)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

JSPB572 -- Ely Public Library (Ely)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

KOPC446 -- H.J. Nugen Public Library (New London)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)