![]() As a result, the Klan’s mystique was stripped away, and by the following year the organization had become a joke. Throughout that original 16-part serial, which ran from July to August of that year, Kennedy provided strange details including secret codewords and meeting rituals used by the Klan. Next week, Yang ( American Born Chinese, Secret Coders, New Super-man) and artists Gurihiru are set to release an 80-page hardcover Superman Smashes the Klan, which updates the famous radio serial from "The Adventures of Superman" program in 1946. But Yang was also drawn to the incident because it represented the first time he encountered someone who looked like him in a Superman story: In the “Clan of the Fiery Cross” storyline, Superman was called to step in when a family of Asian-Americans was harassed and attacked by a group of local bigots. ![]() ![]() It wasn't just that Kennedy's weaving KKK secrets into his Superman radio show helped dismantle the hate group, though that's certainly what earned most of the headlines. When Eisner Award-winning writer and cartoonist Gene Luen Yang first discovered the story of " The Adventures of Superman" radio show and how its host Stetson Kennedy went undercover to fight against the Ku Klux Klan, he was intrigued. ![]()
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