Aunt's, Uncle's, and Cousins

So today as you probably already guessed I am going to write about my aunt, uncle, and cousin's that visited yesterday.

They all were supposed to come up last weekend but my uncle had a work problem. So instead they came on Friday at like 10:00 pm. After they got here we all went to bed. I woke the next morning to find everyone chilling in the sunroom.

So later my mom made us breakfast. Then we went outside and Nerfed for about two hours or as long as it took for us to get to lunch time. So my mom pulled out the fire pit and we cooked hot dogs and marshmallows.

After that we played for about a half an hour and went back inside to show people my father's new comic book room. After that we found out the Easter bunny came and we did our egg hunt with our little cousins. We played the rest of the day and they went home that night.

That's all for today people. (P.S. Aunt Robyn, Andrew and Isaac forgot their eggs.)








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Alex's Wardrobe

Hello people's. today I will be continuing the wardrobe segment. This time with my little brother, Alex's, clothes.






So Alex doesn't have a whole lot of shirts but I didn't take pictures of most of them. Since he goes to a private school he has to wear a school uniform. I used to have to do that and it made me look so drab and dull. I hated it!!









Not all of Alex's shirts are uniform though, some are for weekends and some are for special events like Easter and Christmas. Most of his weekend shirts are superhero's thanks to Dad.









Grammy buys Alex all of his Easter and Christmas clothes. He says he likes Grammy's fancy clothes best. Next comes weekend superhero shirts then last and not surprising is the school uniforms.









Alex is a big fan of how he dresses other than his school uniforms. He also loves his tie's and gets excited when he is allowed to wear one.




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Extra Credit Part ||

This is part two of what I posted in last weeks blog. It is my Social Studies super hero extra credit. So I hope you enjoy the rest.

Chapter Four

These reviewed comics are separated into two different books. Part one is in Whiz Comics 025 and part two is in Master Comics 22. The Whiz Comics cover date/on sale date is December 1941. The Whiz Comics writer was France Herron and their artists are C. C. Beck and Mac Raboy. The Master Comics cover date/on sale date is January 1942. The writer was Bill Woolfolk and the artist is Mac Raboy. They were both published by Fawcett Comics.

This comic is explaining Hitlers übermensch. Übermensch is German for super human. Captain Nazi is Hitlers example of übermensch. He also talked about aryan which is German for racism. Hitler was very racist. He thought that Germans were a different species like übermensch. So in this comic they pose Captain Nazi as the bad guy and make him fight the crippled kid Captain Marvel Jr.

This is drawn by Mac Raboy. That is really important because he is one of the best Golden Ages artists. Not only that but he is black. That was a very big deal for the 1940's.

That is what I learned from these comics. This comic is important because it is the first appearance of Captain Marvel Jr. and Captain Nazi. This is trying to show that the Germans are no better than everyone else in the world, even if they think they are.

Chapter Five

In this chapter I will show some examples of different comic covers. Below I will write a caption about them. They all have something to do with the war and us fighting Germany. They are basically showing examples of the comics I reviewed earlier.




Superman #17 July-August 1942

This is Superman holding up Hitler and ToJo telling the kids that these are the bad guys.




Captain America #1 March 1941

This is again telling the kids Hitler is the bad guy. Captain America is punching him in a Nazi base.





Action Comics 101 October 194

On August 9,1945 the atomic bomb took out a city in Japan. This is showing Superman the man of tomorrow doing what nobody else could do which is recording a test explosion.





World's Finest Comics #6 Summer 1942

This is telling the kids to be proud and thankful to the solders and appreciate what they sacrificed.




World's Finest Comics #7 Autumn 1942

This is showing that we should be happy to go to war because we know we are fighting for what is right.




World's Finest Comics #8 Winter 1942-1943

War bonds are money you donate to the war and you would get the same amount or more back some time later. It is kind of like the government borrowing money that they will return to help the war.




World's Finest Comics #11 Autumn 1943

This is encouraging kids to grow a garden so they can save more store bought food for the soldiers. This way the soldiers could have more meat. It is trying to convince the kid that you would be helping the soldiers, by saving food.




America's Greatest Comics #3 August 12, 1942

This is them getting in a fist fight against Tokyo.




Wonder Woman #1 Summer 1942

This is Wonder Woman helping lead the war showing that women have parts in the war too.




All-Star Comics #27 Winter 1945-1946

This is also showing that we should appreciate what our soldiers have done for us.

Conclusion

So for my conclusion I will answer a few questions for you. They will be bits and pieces of what I have learned from this experience. Most of the questions I feel very strongly about. I think this has really changed how I feel about everything that I went over in the report.

So first question I am going to answer for you is who bought comics back then? Well the average age for kids who read comics is eight. Now parents might have bought it for the kids, but it was the kid that read it. So that concludes that question.

Next question is why would the superhero's join the war before America? The comic book creators wanted to join the war. We wanted to fight for what we knew was right. We wanted to prove to everyone that the Germans were no better than everyone else and that they could be taken down. I think that we did what was right and humiliated Hitler.

This question is why would comics show the glories of being in the military? I think it would show the glories so that the kids would appreciate what our soldier are willing to do for us. Like what they have given up or sacrifice for us. Most of them are willing to risk their lives for us. There is also that the kid that is reading the comic might have family in the war and it might make them feel a little better about that. That's why I think they showed the glories of being in the military.

Why would they show the evil of Hitler and ToJo? The reason is they are trying to say that these are the bad guys you should not be like them. I also think they are trying to say that we are fighting for what is right and these people are not.

Why would they sell war bonds in the comic? Well I think it is partially an advertisement sort of thing. I think it is also trying to convince the kid that he should try to make his parents buy war bonds. If they see heroes selling it they are going to think it is cool and want one too.

That is an overall summary of what I have learned from this report. I had to place myself in both the kids and the authors mind. I think I really expanded and learned a lot from this topic.

The End

So that's that people. This has helped me see the war at a different point of view than what I was seeing it as before. (Boring Social Studies class.) It was different than a normal report because well, it had super hero's fighting in wars in it.


- Posted by Katie

Comic Book Extra Credit Part 1

Hello peeps. Today I will be sharing part one of my World War || comic extra credit assignment for Social Studies. Here I have my opening and chapters one to three. Next week I will release four five and the conclusion. I hope you enjoy!

Usually I learn about World War || in school. Today I expect to learn more than what the lesson in school taught me. I am going to explain what we can learn about World War || from the comics made for kids in that time period. Sometimes the cover had nothing to do with what was inside the book. They tried to teach the kids that what America was fighting for was right and they should be proud that we were in the war. I will explain a few comics and then give some picture examples.

Chapter One

The first comic book I will look at is called Captain America Comics #1. It is drawn by Jack Kirby and written by Joe Simon. It was published by Timely Publications. The release date was December 1940 and the cover date was March 1941. They did not expect it to be on the stand until some time in 1941. That's why on the cover it has 1941. It was important because it was the first appearance of Captain America.

In this chapter I will tell you everything I learned in this comic about Word War Two. They show people at the Navy base doing their jobs and working. They show Captain America getting a shot to make him stronger. This is an example of them wanting us to go into the war and be a lot stronger than they already were. It shows that kids wanted to get into the war because they wanted to be involved. The comic encourages kids to do this because of the cover. If they see someone they look up to then they want to be involved too. They were using propaganda to convince the kids that we were good and Hitler was bad. On the cover they show a map of the U.S. in Hitler's office showing that they might be planning to attack and involve us. They show a guy predicting the future of Hitler bombing a Navy base. I think they were trying to show the kids what might happen.This I think represents the spies and how Captain America is tracking them. I think they are trying to send a wake up call through children. There is a lot of military in this last part. It shows that you have to be strong and start training early.

That is what I have learned from this comic. Before I read this comic I didn't know what propaganda was or that we used it. I also didn't know that they used so many military things. I knew that we fought against Hitler and all, but I didn't know about anything else. I learned what was on the mind of kids and writers back then when the comic was made. The writers knew that the military wanted to be involved in the war and the kids were thinking about who was good and bad and who they could trust or not.

Chapter Two

The next comic I will review is All-Star Comics #8. This comic was released in October 1941 and it's cover date is January 1942. It was written and drawn by William Marston and Harry G. Peter. It was published by D.C. Comics. This comic shows that we were right for fighting for what we did and nobody should regret that we fought. It is important because it is the first appearance of Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman came to America because her mother was told she had to send her strongest amazon to help fight for the freedom of women. She went to America because we were fighting for democracy. It was the Germans that wanted war and started World War ||. We fought against them for peace, freedom, and democracy. The Germans wanted more war. That is what most of World War || was. Other countries joined in on which side they thought was right and should win.

I learned that we wanted peace and freedom and Germany and Hitler want more war because they didn't think the world was good enough. That is what I have learned from this comic. Before I read this comic I didn't know that Germany wanted more war I thought they just wanted everything to be their way.

Chapter Three

The next comic to be reviewed is All-Star Comics #11. It is the first comic that would take heroes from different features and put them on the same team. It was on sale in April 1942. It's cover date is July 1942. It is written by Gardner Fox. The artist's were the regular artists assigned to each super hero. They include, Jake Burnley, Sheldon Moldoff, Harry G. Petter, Cliff Young, Ben Flinton, Howard Sherman, and Stan Aschmeier. It was published by D. C. Comics.

Hawkman joined the Army. Wonder woman was disguised to be a nurse but changed to Wonder Woman. The reason she did not just join the army was because women could not join back then. Sandman also joined the army. This comic is again showing the kids that we are good and they are bad. If they see someone they look up to then they might want to be a lot like them when they get older. The Atom enters next and takes out tons of bad solders. Now it is Doctor Fate. There is a lot of land action with him where as sandman had a lot of water action. Dr. Midnight also entered the war and he took out tons of people at night, and snuck into the enemy camp. Now Starman enters and flies up to take out air crafts. Johnny Thunder is next. He was in the Navy.

This is important because the JSA joins the war. It is basically telling kids that if there is someone they care about in the war that they are doing it for the right thing and that there is a chance they might make it back. The JSA members did not hesitate to join the war to help fight for what was right.

Thanks for reading part two will be released next week.

Sorry

No blog today folks. I am taking a break on the wardrobe blogs for today. I am doing this because I have to work on extra credit for my teacher. I am making it on comics in Word War ||. I have to finish my opening and conclusion paragraphs. I will put it on one of my blogs when it is done. Farewell peeps.


- Posted by Katie