Comic Book Cover

In the comic book cover that I chose there is a picture of a superhero wearing a red suit with a yellow lightning bolt on the chest the character is known as Captain Marvel. He is enormous and standing over the top of a small village of Japanese people trying to run from him and a mountain further back in the background. He has his one hand on top of the people and the other balled up into a fist ready to pound on all of the Japanese soldiers. On the cover in the text it reads, “Capt. Marvel Swats the Japs!”
Captain Marvel is a white person who is shown in what it looks like he is trying to kill all of the Japanese people on the cover in the village. This comic book cover if I had to guess was published during the time or shortly after World War II. Showing the Americans dislike towards Japanese people. The mountain in the background is probably Mount Fiji, the highest mountain in Japan.
This comic book cover relates to Chapter 10 in Takaki. That chapter deals with Hawaii and the people of Hawaii and more specifically the Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii and the mainland from Japan. It was about how Japanese people came to America looking for a better life. They came to get better wages on jobs, and to find what they thought was the “American dream.” This cover shows how the Japanese were treated in America, they were not treated fairly and did not receive the same type of treatment that others.
I think that this cover is kind of interesting. It shows how the Japanese people were treated during the time. It shows how much hatred the Japanese had to overcome while they were being treated poorly. They came to America in search of freedoms, and better wages. And all they get is poor treatment for nothing. I think that this cover shows this.