'Master Race'

[cyberghostface]

 

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In light of that, I am posting one of EC's (if not the medium's) most famous comics 'Master Race'. It is one of the first comics to address the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman has a write-up on the comic and its artist Bernie Krigstein here.

This was published in Impact #1. The comic was included for free in Dark Horse's EC sampler (available here) so I am posting it in its entirety.

Comments

[blues32]

Looks like you CAN run from your past. Just be careful not to trip. You might end up on the wrong side of the tracks. And on the right side. And on the tracks. And on the train.

[numeronone]

And smushed into certain parts of the train.

[super_fly]

This is all very unpleasant. Spare a thought for the guy who has to clean all that up! I'm sure he had better things to do then mop Nazi off a steel grill.

[pauldrye]

This is best read in the Cryptkeeper's voice and no-one can change my mind,

[dcbanacek]

Maybe Morgan Freeman:

"I like to think that the last thing that went through Carl's head, before the grill of that train, was wondering 'How did he find me?'"

[leahandillyana]

I am surprised that antisemitism and the Reich's genocidal project was not discussed in the comics as it was happening, given that there were many Jewish creators in early American comics.