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Singer with a theatrical roar who took American Idol to the charts and the Queen catalog on the road.

EC Comics artist who edited Mad for nearly three decades.

Mad's Fold-in inventor and its longest-running contributor.

French public intellectual who made philosophy a visible, traveling vocation.

Historian who took a Holocaust denier to court and won.

Psychoanalyst who asked why people flee freedom and called the answer a human problem.

German philosopher of hope who read history as a future that had not yet arrived.

Legal scholar who wrote one of the first serious anatomies of the Nazi state.

Publisher who co-owned National Periodical Publications, later DC.

Cartoonist who founded Mad and taught America to laugh at itself.

Kraków-born economist who revived Marx’s crisis theory from inside the Frankfurt School.

Berlin-born philosopher whose books became a field manual for the student New Left.

Accountant-publisher who co-owned the company that became DC Comics.

Batman artist who helped create Robin and the Joker.

Archie co-founder and a guardian of the Comics Code.

Frankfurt School sociologist who read popular culture as a document of power.

Co-founder and longtime publisher of the company that became Archie Comics.

Austrian economist who made the case for markets as human action.

Quiet third founder of the company that became Archie Comics.

Publisher who helped invent the American comic book as an object.

Philosopher who directed the Frankfurt School and named the dark side of modern reason.

Chicago economist who made monetarism a public argument.

Mad caricaturist who spent fifty years spoofing movies and TV.

American economist who pushed Austrian ideas toward a radical edge.

Linguist who remade the study of language and became one of the most cited living writers.

Frankfurt School jurist who studied the modern state, then analyzed it for the OSS.

Early DC editor credited with rescuing Superman from the slush.

Weimar critic who argued that cinema’s first duty is to show the world as it is.

Counsel and speechwriter who gave John F. Kennedy his public voice.

Writer whose wartime pamphlet Germany Must Perish became a grim curiosity.

Underground cartoonist who wrote women back into comics history.

Austrian-school economist who teaches and argues from New Orleans.

Mad's original wild man, a cartoonist of crowded, frantic gags.

Publisher who kept Mad alive and turned EC into a legend.