3/13/2024 0 Comments Jack the giant killer 1962 blurayWhat makes Jack such a Protean, wide-ranging hero? Folklore aficionados would not be surprised at such multiplication the landmark 1943 anthology The Jack Tales, by Richard Chase, presents Jack as the quintessential American hero. Through multiple storylines, Jack remained one of the series’ most compelling characters, and eventually spun off into his own comic series, Jack of Fables, in which he was revealed to be not only the nursery-rhyme star of “Little Jack Horner” and “Jack Be Nimble,” but also the sword-wielding hero of “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Jack the Giant-Killer.” Jack was joined in his predicament by such fairy-tale regulars as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, the Frog Prince, the Three Little Pigs, and the Big Bad Wolf. Readers were soon introduced to the near-frantic passenger: Jack, a former fairy-tale hero who had been expelled from his homeland by the mysterious “Adversary,” and who was living in exile in New York City. Winickīill Willingham’s multiple-Eisner-award-winning comic book series, Fables, began with a young man urging a New York cab driver to go faster. An Exploration of Jack Tales by Stephen D.
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