“HE IS NOT A
SYMBOLIC CHRIST! FORGET ABOUT
TURNING HIS FLESH AND BLOOD INTO SOME ESOTERIC ALLUSION TO THE PERSECUTION OF CONTEMPORARY MAN… THE
FLAMES WHICH CONSUME THE CROSS AND HIS BODY PROVE HIS HUMANITY”—From “A Cross
Burning Darkly Blackening the Night!” in Jungle
Action #21, May 1976.
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| The KKK Can't Take My Baby Away |
If Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams helped pave the way for Frank
Miller, then Don McGregor, Billy Graham and the rest of the talent behind
“Panther’s Rage” and “The Panther Vs. The Klan” set the bar for the much
admired literary writers of the Brit Invasion almost a decade later to pursue.
There’s no reason why these 18 comics should not be mentioned in the same
breath as Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, or Sandman.
