![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meet Bungleton Green-an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black. Why this important first has been forgotten is a mystery, but celebrating it today is critical. Buy a copy of Bungleton Green and The Mystic Commandos book by Jay Jackson. The result was some of the strongest social commentary ever put into comic form, with excoriations of white supremacy, bigotry, and systemic racism that resonate with current events. ![]() Jackson felt that Americans needed to be reminded of the unequal status of black Americans fighting in and supporting a war effort purported for the freedom of all. That he did this during World War II is no coincidence the time was ripe. Bungleton Green, the name of the character as well as the strip, became the literal embodiment of the black ideal, a man who in all ways was equal, even superior, to the whites whose relentless oppression Jackson constantly fought. Jay Jackson introduced the world to the first black superhero on Januin the most obvious place, “the oldest, longest continuously running black comic strip,” Bungleton Green, in the pages of the country’s leading black newspaper, the Chicago Defender. Jay Jackson employed angled figures and close-ups to create dramatic tension in Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, a fantasy about a white man facing racism in a word of green people. ![]()
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