Incognegro
Hardcover
2008 · New York
by Johnson, Mat and Warren Pleece
New York: DC Comics, 2008. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, otherwise crisp and clean.). Brown boards, tan and illus. newspaper-like dust jacket in mylar cover, 136 pp., graphic novel illus. A graphic novel, suggested for mature readers. In the early 20th century, "a few courageous reports from the North risked their lives to expose [racial] atrocities. They were light-skinned African-American men who could 'pass' for white. They called this dangerous assignment 'going incognegro.' Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald barely escapes with his life after his latest 'incognegro' story goes bad. But when he returns to the sanctuary of Harlem, he's sent on a new story -- the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi." (back cover). (Inventory #: 159532)