The fascinating collection We Spoke Out - Comic Books and the Holocaust begins its largely chronological survey of comics which addressed the Holocaust with arguably the single finest story to do so -- "The Master Race" by Bernie Krigstein for the debut issue of Impact from the venerated EC Comics.
Beneath the Jack Davis cover is a story which elegantly and (no pun intended) masterfully guides the reader through a frightening tale of an evil man who meets a justice of a sort at long last.
Krigtstein's storytelling, his control of time and space and his fidelity to keeping the reader's eyes exactly where he wants them, makes "Master Race" a compelling eight-page read. Apparently it began as a typical six-page EC yarn, but Krigstein wanted a few more pages to tell the tale properly and adding those two pages caused a deadline to be missed and and a delay of a year before the public was able to encounter this response to the Nazi menace which defined the 20th century. Here in the original is "Master Race" by Bernard Krigstein.
The premise of We Spoke Out is that for a host of political reasons, the Holocaust was not a subject taught or much discussed in America save for popular culture and in particular comic books. The examination of the horrors of the Nazi nightmare are begun magnificently with "Master Race".
Note: This post originally appeared at Rip Jagger's Other Dojo.
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