These comics were well received, and helped build the buzz around the character for further inclusion in pulp depictions. Tales set both in the 1940s with the original character, told in a meta style of having discovered the lost scripts of the fictional creators, or in an updated reboot where the mantle had been passed on to a new generation, Flash or Green Lantern style.
It wasn’t too surprising that soon after the book became a hit, some initial volumes of Escapist comics began to be released. Many a creation of modern day comicdom is immediately tossed back into obscurity, but here we were given an instant sensation in the rich setting of World War II, and not a single page of art had been inked. This book is remarkable in that it both won the Pulitizer Prize for fiction, but also managed to create a superhero character that actually has page appeal. The Escapist was born in the same mold of Superman, and Chabon’s novel details both the comic world and the politically and morally charged world of 1940s and ’50s New York City. Joe Kavalier, a Jewish escapee of the Nazi regime and artist, and his American cousin and writer, Sammy Clay, sat down and created their own perfect superhero based on Houdini, an escape artist and fellow Jew. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!
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