How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
While the Jewish contribution to film, theatre, music and comedy has been well-documented, the Jewish role in the creation of the All-American superhero has been left unexplored - until now. The early comic book creators were almost all Jewish, and as children of immigrants, they spent their lives trying to escape the second-class mentality which ......
Is there a woman who would deny having sexual daydreams? This collection of erotic fantasies is the result of intensive research among women: women alone, women in relationships both heterosexual and queer - women who here shared their secret fantasies. The 39 fantasies in this collection are guaranteed to stimulate the erotic imagination not only ......
"Corman's novel is a work of art. The journey is joyous." -Los Angeles Times The classic, best-selling novel of a successful ad man from the Mad Men era. Steve Robbins, burned out, his marriage failing, returns to his roots in his old neighborhood in the Bronx to find the piece of himself that he left behind. Caught in the mainstream of modern ......
Milwaukee has kept its murders and mishaps out of books. Until now. From Vito Guardalabene's arrival from Italy until the days of controlling the Teamsters union and paying off public officials, Milwaukee was a city of Bullets, Blood and Beer. The Milwaukee Mafia relies on previously unseen police reports, FBI investigative notes, coroner's ......
The newest edition to Barricade's True Crime paperback series, The Life and Times of Lepke Buchalter is the first biography of the only organized crime boss to be executed in the United States. As a labor racketeer who controlled New York s Lower East Side garment industry, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter became the overseer of the notorious ......
The Kafka Society by Ron Felber finds Jack Madson, (A Man of Indeterminate Value), on another adventure. After a night of clubbing, Jack has no memory of how stripper, Amber Starr got into his bed. Great sex doesn't make up for the discovery of a severed head in the trunk of his Mustang convertible. Is Madson a murderer? Before that question can ......
Once Ron Arons was over the shock of learning that his great-grandfather had done a 'stretch' in the famed sing sing prison, he embarked on a journey to learn more about his ancestor and how he landed in jail. What he discovered was that between 1880 and 1950 there were thousands of Jews behind bars at Sing Sing, for crimes ranging from incest to ......
A group of avengers set out on a mission to find and assassinate escaped Nazi war criminals. Based on a true story, the character of 'The Ghost' was responsible for directing the escape strategies for the entire Nazi network organised from his official seat at The Vatican. Had they not escaped, these Nazis would have been assassinated by Israeli ......
