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PBS Looks Into Comics’ Racial History

July 11th, 2011
Author Graeme McMillan

Airing tonight on PBS – but available online now – an episode of History Detectives that looks into the origins of a short-lived 1950s comic series called Negro Romance – a comic so rare that only ten copies are said to still exist today. It’s a weird little segment that nonetheless manages to offer some industry history about failed markets and unknown comic creators that’s worth watching.

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