Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos

In 1942, Chicago Defender cartoonist Jackson turned a long-running comic strip about a bumbling fool named Bungleton Green into an epic science fiction adventure about a group of courageous teenagers who travel across time and space doing battle against Nazis, enslavers, segregationists, and others opposed to racial equality. In one sequence, the team must prevent a Nazi spy from deploying a special gas that enslaves the mind of anyone exposed to it. Another story finds the Commandos stranded two hundred years in the past, where they liberate a shipload of enslaved people before they can be sold at auction. Next, they visit the year 2044, where they defend an alternate-history U.S., in which racism no longer exists, against invasion by a society of undersea-dwelling, green-skinned people who believe themselves superior to all other races. This volume reprints the entire series for the first time since it was first published in the 1940s.