Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Preachies 1
5. Chapter One. “Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions”: How to Read an EC Magazine 25
6. Chapter Two. “We Pictured Him So Different, Joey!”: Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC 51
7. Chapter Three. “Oh God . . . Sob! . . . What Have I Done . . . ?”: Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice 77
8. Chapter four. “Battling, in the Sea of Comics”: EC’s Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of “Judgment Day!” 104
9. Conclusion. “Hence We See Justice Triumph!” 133
10. Appendix: Annotations of Key EC Titles 137
11. Notes 141
12. Bibliography 165
13. Index 177
14. About the authors 183