A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.

More than 500 strips take the reader through the comics history of the first half of the 20th century. A brief chapter on each decade gives the reader a frame of reference, and biographies of the most important artists are included.

Recaptures that contradictory time in American life after the roar of the Twenties and before the war of the Forties. This account covers a wide variety of names, pastimes, fashions, and dreams ranging from the Great Depression to The Great Ziegfeld.