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''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay]]'' (2000) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by [[Michael Chabon]] about [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]], focusing on two Jewish cousins, American writer Sam Clay (born Klayman) and Czech artist Josef Kavalier, who together create a popular superhero comic called the Escapist, inspired in equal measure by Harry Houdini and [[Superman]].▼
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Many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-book creators, and the book as a whole is generally an homage to the comics of the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]].
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: [[Discussed Trope]]. The Senate committee grills Sam about the fact that he constantly creates young male sidekicks for his characters, and all but calls [[Batman]] gay.
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: The "Razis", led by evil dictator "Atilla Haxoff". No one is fooled.
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* [[Closet Key]]: Tracy Bacon for Sam Clay. Sam's mother knows before he does.
* [[Commie Nazis]]: Once [[World War II]] ends, the people who own The Ecapist have no problem switching his villains from the Nazis to The Soviets.
* [[Cutting the Knot]]: According to Kornblum, [[Harry Houdini]] had his wife sneak him a key in a glass of water when he couldn't escape a lock. This is used as [[An Aesop]] about [[The Power of Love]].
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: {{spoiler|Tommy}}
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Joe's entire family}}
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* [[Time Skip]]: {{spoiler|A few years during [[World War II]] and a whopping decade after. }}
* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Sam is [[Jewish and Nerdy]], [[Invisible to Gaydar]], and [[Genius Cripple|walks on crutches due to a childhood bout with Polio]]. Arguably, Joe as well, being both Jewish and a German-speaking immigrant.
* [[War Is Hell]]: Reconstructed {{spoiler|in a (mostly) non-combat situation. Joe is eager to fight the Nazis and pay them back for murdering his family, but, because he's a native German speaker, he [[Kicked Upstairs|ends up far away from the fighting intercepting radio transmissions]], at an outpost in [[Mysterious Antarctica]], where the only thing to fight is the harsh conditions. He sees all his comrades die, pointlessly, from a carbon monoxide leak. He does shoot one German -- who turns out to be a nice guy and not at all a Nazi.}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: In-universe example. Joe channels a great deal of his hatred of [[Nazi Germany|The Nazis]] into some very detailed, but graphically violent fight comics.
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Joe, in respect to both New York and Prague.
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