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A twelve-year-old boy, middle son in a wealthy, politically and culturally prominent San Francisco family, watches his city disappear in the earthquake and fires of 1906. His father him that nothing has been lost that cannot be swiftly and easily replaced. He quotes Virgil: “Nothing unreal is allowed to survive.” The boy turns this stark Stoic philosophical “consolation” into the radical theater practices of the day, in the course of which he involves himself with radical labor struggles: anarchists, Wobblies, socialists of every stripe. He learns that politics is meta-acting, and he and his girlfriend—a Connecticut mill girl who is on the verge of national recognition as a spokesperson for workers—embark on a speaking tour with a Midwestern anti-railroad, pro-farmer group and take their political, philosophical, and artistic ethos to the farthest limits of the real and the unreal, where they find there is no useful distinction between the two.

Builds on the popularity of Mike Madrid’s debut book The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, EAP’s bestselling title Appeals to a graphic novel audience with 28 full reproductions of vintage comics from the Golden Age Appeals to audiences interested in the history of comic books, feminism, and American cultural history with foreword by Maria Elena Buszek, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado Denver, author of Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, and regular contributor to Bust magazine. The author is an expert on comic book history and appears in the recent documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, along with Gloria Steinem, Lynda Carter, and Trina Robbins. Readers will be especially fascinated by heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, such as The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Peter Parker, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine.