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American Century by Howard Chaykin & David Tischman - C -
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Overview: American Century was a comic book series published by DC Comics as a part of the Vertigo imprint starting in early 2001. It was co-written by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman. The story concerned a former American pilot who fakes his death and goes on the run in the 1950s. Chaykin intended it as a "left-wing version of Steve Canyon", and wrote all of the issues. The comic ran for approximately two years.













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American Century

David Tischman writer
Howard Chaykin writer, cover
John Stokes, Fabio Laguna inker
Marc Laming, Lan Medina penciler
Glen Orbik penciler, inker, colorist, cover
John Severin, Warren Pleece penciler, inker
Jim Silke, John Van Fleet penciler, inker, colorist, cover
Paul Levitz production
Ken Bruzenak, John Costanza, Luke Ross, Ken Bruzenak letterer
Jamison, Pamela Rambo, Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh, Digital Chameleon colorist
Shelly Bond 'Roeberg', Will Dennis, Mariah Huehner, Jenette Kahn editor
Published by Vertigo. 2001-2003

Plot

Harry Block, a World War II veteran, fakes his own death and makes his way to Central America to create a new identity for himself as Harry Kraft, a hard-drinking smuggler. During a war in Guatemala, a CIA operative blackmails Block into assassinating Rosa de Santiis, a popular leader in opposition to the CIA puppet dictator General Zavala. Afterward, he heads back to the United States, taking a road trip from Hollywood to Chicago to New York City, exploring myriad avenues of 1950s American culture.

The comic ends with Block essentially turning into the character he had created for the fictional "Starburst Comics", a vigilante known as "Dr. Dream."

American Century

#01-04: Scars and Stripes

American Century #01 - Borrowed Time: Interest Compounded Daily
American Century #02 - Bitter Fruit
American Century #03 - Go Directly to HELL! Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
American Century #04 - Bananarama
#05-09: Hollywood Babylon

American Century #05 - The Protector
American Century #06 - L.A. Woman
American Century #07 - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
American Century #08 - Meet Me At Third and Fairfax
American Century #09 - Route 66
#10-27: Uncollected

American Century #10 - Spirits in the Nigh
American Century #11 - White Lightning
American Century #12 - The Road to Hell
American Century #13 - Deliverance!
American Century #14 - An American in Paris
American Century #15 - Pardon My French
American Century #16 - Merde Happens
American Century #17 - Coming Home
American Century #18 - Beth Wish
American Century #19 - Things to Do in Chicago When You're Dead
American Century #20 - The Night Chicago Died
American Century #21 - The "C" Word
American Century #22 - Tramps Part 1
American Century #23 - Tramps Part 2
American Century #24 - Even Cowgirls Get the Jews
American Century #25 - Bite the Big Apple
American Century #26 - A Match Made in Heaven
American Century #27 - Secret Origins

This hard-boiled graphic novel set in the early '50s hints at what the comic strip "Steve Canyon" might've been like had it been penned by a cynical, leftist libertine rather than a right-wing cold warrior. Its antihero is ex-World War II fighter pilot Harry Block, who turns his back on the American dream, fakes his death, and decamps to Guatemala, where, getting embroiled in espionage, murder, and revolution, he mixes it up with the CIA., Communist rebels, and the most powerful force in the country, the U.S. Fruit Company. Nearly any page would make "Steve Canyon" stalwarts blanch. This is adult-but-mainstream comics fare, boasting rough language, brutal violence, and blatant sex. Creator Chaykin, best known for his groundbreaking sf satire American Flagg (1987), is comics' foremost exponent of pulp, and his gritty approach and wise-ass attitude give American Century its oomph. The book would've been even better, however, had Chaykin drawn it himself, instead of just coauthoring and designing it; his own noirish drawing style beats the somewhat stiff realism of the comic's illustrators.

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