8. Crane's Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy were rousing pulpy adventures set in imaginary exotic lands, Indiana Jones avant la lettre.
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9. Crane had a seminal influence on all sorts of cartoonists ranging from Walt Disney, to Charles Schulz, to Joe Shuster, to Milton Caniff
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10. Crane was the pathfinder who opened up comics to slam bang action adventure. Without him impossible to imagine superhero genre
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11. Look at Joe Shuster's early drawings of Superman -- his whole face, squint and all, taken from Captain Easy, as is body.
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12. So how did this basically pulpy cartoonist get entangled with American machinations in Iran? Read my article to find out!
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13. I didn't go into this in the article but the timing of the Crane's strip, its content and actual 1953 Iran coup suspicious.
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14. Some backstory. In 1951 Iran democratically elects Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular progressive who wants to nationalize the oil industry.
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15. Anglo-American interests immediately started to destabalize Moaddegh's government, although CIA doesn't push for coup till 1953.
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16. According to at leas some Iranian accounts, one of the hotbeds for anti-Mosaddegh agitation was Point 4, the USA development agency.
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17. A Cold War liberal with populist sympathy for idea of development from wide travels in poor countries, Crane sympathetic to Point 4
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18. So under direction of State Dept., Crane creates story where Buz Sawyer goes to Iran, uses Point 4 to avert famine, thwarts communists
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19. “It would be best to avoid any reference to OIL in discussing Iran.” State Dept. letter to Crane, 1952.
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20. Crane's 1952 Iran comic strip story reads very differently once we know what was happening in real Iran.
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