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Helgason, Jón Karl. "‘Who is this upstart Hitler?’ Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War." From Iceland to the Americas. Vinland and historical imagination. Eds. Tim William Machan and Jón Karl Helgason. Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Manchester, New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 2020. 198–214. Added by: joachim (1/8/22, 1:10 PM) Last edited by: joachim (1/8/22, 4:39 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.7765/9781526128768.00020 BibTeX citation key: Helgason2020 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Middle Ages, Propaganda, USA, War Creators: Helgason, Machan Publisher: Manchester Univ. Press (Manchester, New York) Collection: From Iceland to the Americas. Vinland and historical imagination |
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In the period 1939–1945 several American comic magazines published graphic stories featuring pagan Nordic gods, including Odin and Thor. These range from Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's ‘The Villain from Valhalla’, appearing in Adventure Comics in 1942, to ‘The Shadow of Valhalla’, published in the magazine Boy Commandos in 1944. The most interesting of these publications, however, was the series ‘Thor, God of Thunder’, published in Weird Comics as early as 1940. The five stories in question were attributed to one Wright Lincoln (a pen name used by several writers and artists). The article traces how all of these American comic stories were inspired by the medieval Icelandic Eddas and how they contributed, with their anti-German propaganda, to the so-called ‘comic book war’.
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