| Description |
135 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the French. |
| Summary |
"It’s 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the 'Ghost Girls.' The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clings to their clothes after every shift painting watch dials. The soft, greenish glow even stains their lips and tongues, which they use to point the fine brushes used in their work. It’s perfectly harmless . . . or so claims the watch manufacturer. When teeth start falling out, followed by jawbones, the dial painters become the unprepared vanguard on the frontlines of the burgeoning workers’ rights movement. Desperate for compensation and acknowledgement from the company that has doomed them, the Ghost Girls must fight, not just for their own lives but the future of every woman to follow them." --back cover. |
| Subject |
United States Radium Corporation -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Women employees -- Diseases -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Radium paint -- Toxicology -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Historical fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical comics.
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Comics (Graphic works)
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Graphic novels.
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| Added Author |
Weaver, E. K., letterer.
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Hahnenberger, Ivanka, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781945820991 (pbk) |
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1945820993 (pbk) |
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