Adventure Comics: Museum Object and Cultural History
Adventure Comics: date made: Sept./Oct. 1978. Object Name: comic book. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
“The Case of the Fortune Cookie Fortune” : In this first issue of Adventure Comics, The Elongated Man’s story opens up in a high-end Chinese restaurant whose servers are exclusively all white males. The white blue-eyed female picks up one of the fortune cookies to find a $1000 bill enclosed. In The Elongated Man’s pursuit to identifying the source of the $1000 bill, he is eventually led to Benny Maxwell, who distributed his $30,000 through fortune cookies to make up for his past crime. Here, the fortune cookie is symbolic of ‘good’, as it used as a vessel to correct a white man’s sins.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: Sept./Oct. 1978
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 in x 1/8 in; 26.035 cm x 17.78 cm x .3175 cm
- ID Number: 2012.3057.04
- nonaccession number: 2012.3057
- catalog number: 2012.3057.04
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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