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''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'' is a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 2000 novel by Creator/MichaelChabon about UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, focusing on two Jewish cousins, American writer Sam Clay (born Klayman) and Czech artist Josef Kavalier, who together create a popular superhero comic called the Escapist, inspired in equal measure by Harry Houdini and {{Franchise/Superman}}.
Many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-book creators, and the book as a whole is generally an homage to the comics of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]]. It had a pseudo-sequel in Creator/BrianKVaughan's ''The Escapists'', as well as two ultra-short stories that recount events cut from the novel, and a [[DistantFinale faux-interview with Rosa Saks in 1988.]] It also spun off into a short lived AnthologyComic, ''The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist'', in which numerous creators including Chabon himself recounted The Escapist's exploits in as many styles.
Many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-book creators, and the book as a whole is generally an homage to the comics of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]]. It had a pseudo-sequel in Creator/BrianKVaughan's ''The Escapists'', as well as two ultra-short stories that recount events cut from the novel, and a [[DistantFinale faux-interview with Rosa Saks in 1988.]] It also spun off into a short lived AnthologyComic, ''The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist'', in which numerous creators including Chabon himself recounted The Escapist's exploits in as many styles.
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''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'' is a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 2000 novel by Creator/MichaelChabon about UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, focusing on two Jewish cousins, American writer Sam Clay (born Klayman) and Czech artist Josef Kavalier, who together create a popular superhero comic called the Escapist, inspired in equal measure by Harry Houdini and {{Franchise/Superman}}.
Many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-book creators, and the book as a whole is generally an homage to the comics of the[[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]]. It had a pseudo-sequel in Creator/BrianKVaughan's ''The Escapists'', as well as two ultra-short stories that recount events cut from the novel, and a [[DistantFinale faux-interview with Rosa Saks in 1988.]] It also spun off into a short lived AnthologyComic, ''The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist'', in which numerous creators including Chabon himself recounted The Escapist's exploits in as many styles.
Many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-book creators, and the book as a whole is generally an homage to the comics of the
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* {{Gayngst}}: Sam Clay is a gay man in the 1940s... so it comes up in force, complete with the addition of [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Fredric Wertham]] and the congressional investigations into comicbooks in the 1950s. He is ashamed of his sexuality, [[spoiler:and ends up abandoning Tracy because of it]].
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* {{Gayngst}}: Sam Clay is a gay man in the 1940s... so it comes up in force, complete with the addition of [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode [[MediaNotes/TheComicsCode Fredric Wertham]] and the congressional investigations into comicbooks in the 1950s. He is ashamed of his sexuality, [[spoiler:and ends up abandoning Tracy because of it]].
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* {{Reconstruction}}: Reconstructs [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superhero stories by telling a story from the POV of the men who wrote them, showing how important they are to American culture and American Jewish culture specifically.
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* {{Reconstruction}}: Reconstructs [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superhero stories by telling a story from the POV of the men who wrote them, showing how important they are to American culture and American Jewish culture specifically.
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* ScarpiaUltimatum: A particularly cruel one. [[spoiler: Sam says yes.]]
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* SexualExtortion: A particularly cruel one. A house party of gay men is busted by the authorities, and one of the agents coerces the last one found into providing sexual favors to avoid arrest. (Even more cruelly, it's strongly implied that the agent was then going to arrest him ''anyway'' so he could assault him further, which is only avoided by a very lucky chance phone call.) [[spoiler: Sam says yes.]]
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* StealthPun: When Sam brings Tracy ''Bacon'' home, he jokes to himself that he's bringing the biggest piece of treyf in the world to Shabbos dinner. Treyf means (very simplified) "not kosher". [[DontExplainTheJoke Like pork, which bacon is made of.]]
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* EscapistCharacter: [[MeaningfulName The Escapist]], for people in-universe.
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* EscapistCharacter: [[MeaningfulName The Escapist]], for people in-universe. He starts out as a fantasy of vengeance against anti-Semitism before turning into a borader escapist figure as he gains mainstream popularity.
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* JewishAndNerdy: Played straight and subverted to varying degrees.
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* JewishAndNerdy: Played straight Sam and subverted Joe are intelligent Jewish boys whose main claim to varying degrees.fame is creating a superhero comic. Both can be socially awkward at times. However, Joe is more physically impressive than usual examples of the trope.
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* {{Reconstruction}}: Reconstructs [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superhero stories by telling a story from the POV of the men who wrote them, showing how important they are to American culture.culture and American Jewish culture specifically.
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: In-universe, and played fairly humourously. Carl Ebling's reports on the comic are intended to be about the evil work of the degenerates corrupting the youth and leading people to war. But over time, his articles and reports shift from angered screeds and criticism to simply him talking about the comic and giving detailed summaries of the latest issue in a way that sounds like he's honestly invested in it. A later one is a four-page-long explication of the events of the comic, with the sole criticism being a hasty note in the very last sentence of "Of course all this is the usual Jewish warmongering propaganda."
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: In-universe, and played fairly humourously. Carl Ebling's reports on the comic are intended to be about the evil work of the degenerates corrupting the youth and leading people to war. But over time, his articles and reports shift from angered screeds and criticism to simply him talking about the comic and giving detailed summaries of the latest issue in a way that sounds like he's honestly invested in it. A later one is a four-page-long explication of the events of the that month's comic, with the sole criticism being a hasty note in the very last sentence of "Of course all this is the usual Jewish warmongering propaganda."
