Photo Acknowledgments
The images in this book are used with the permission of: © iStockphoto.com/Ivan Bajic
(old paper) © iStockphoto.com/Gordan1 (grunge frame); © Patrick Eden/Alamy, p. 1;
© iStockphoto.com/Ivan Bliznetsov, p. 3; Walt Disney Pictures/Newscom, p. 4; © Captain
Avery capturing the ‘Ganj-i-Sawai’ on 8th September 1695 (engraving), English School,
(18th century)/Private Collection/Bridgeman Images, p. 7; © Joyner Library/East Carolina
University, p. 8; © Laura Westlund/Independent Picture Service, pp. 12–13; © Costa/
Leemage/Bridgeman Images, p. 14; © Leemage/UIG/Getty Images, p. 16; © RDImages/
Epics/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images, p. 19; © Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy, pp. 22,
32; © Universal History Archive/Getty Images, p. 27; The Granger Collection, New York,
p. 30; © Leemage/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, p. 35; Naval Historical Center,
Department of the Navy, Washington Navy Yard/Wikimedia Commons (public domain),
p. 39; © Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy, pp. 40, 49; U.S. Coast Guard, p. 43;
© Images & Stories/Alamy, p. 45; Walt Disney/Kobal Collection/Art Resource, NY, p. 52;
© John Springer Collection/CORBIS, p. 54; © Moviestore collection Ltd/Alamy, p. 56;
© Doug Benc/Getty Images, p. 61; © Candela Foto Art/Kreuziger/Getty Images, p. 63;
Michael De Luca Productions/Kobal Collection/Art Resource, NY, p. 69.
Front cover: © FlamingPumpkin/E+/Getty Images (swords); © iStockphoto.com/vectomart
(flames); © iStockphoto.com/NREY (skull with eye patch). Back cover: © iStockphoto.com/
Evgeny Sergeev.
About the Author
Arie Kaplan is an award-winning nonfiction author and screenwriter. He
has written comic book stories and graphic novels for DC Comics, Archie
Comics, Bongo Comics, Penguin Young Readers Group, and other publishers.
He is the author of many books for young adult readers, including
Saturday
Night Live: Shaping TV Comedy and American Culture
(2014) and
American Pop:
Hit Makers, Superstars, and Dance Revolutionaries
(2012). His book
From Krakow
to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books
was a finalist for the 2008 National Jewish
Book Award. Kaplan has also written jokes and comedy sketches for the
television series
TruTV Presents: World’s Dumbest
and humor articles for
MAD
magazine. He is married to a beautiful, brilliant Jamaican woman who—as
far as she knows—is not the descendant of Caribbean pirates. Check out his
website at
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