Front Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Before Hiroshima -- Chapter 1: Comic Strips Confront the Subatomic World: The Turn of the Century to the Early 1930s -- Chapter 2: The Comics and the Fissioned Aton: The Mid-1930s to August 6, 1945 -- Part II: The Initial Reaction: 1945- Early 1960s -- Chapter 3: Coming to Grips with the Atom: Early Atomic Superheroes -- Chapter 4: Atomic Comic Utopias, Espionage, and the Cold War -- Part III: Atomic Comics Change Direction: The Mid-1950s to the Present Day -- Chapter 5: American Underground Comix, Political and International Cartoonists, and the Rise of Japanese Manga -- Chapter 6: The Never-Ending Appeal of Atomic Adventure Tales -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism. Atomic bomb in literature. Cartoonists.