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As a cartoonist by Noah Van Sciver6/12/2023 Van Sciver captures how the faithful hung on Smith’s charismatic oratory, and depicts spiritual innovations such as God as a deified human and baptism on the behalf of dead relatives. After Bennett is ousted for immorality, and some leaders vehemently reject Smith’s teaching on polygamy, Smith ends up murdered by a mob. After his upstart bank fails, he decamps with believers to Illinois, where the recently converted, scheming John Cook Bennett helps establish a new city with sweeping political independence. He gains followers preaching about “Zion” and establishes a community in Kirtland, Ohio (though the locals tar and feather him). Smith, using a seer stone, translates the record and publishes it as the Book of Mormon. Against her family’s wishes, they marry and return to Smith’s home in Upstate New York to dig it up. In 1825, treasure hunter Joseph Smith (1805–1844) tells Emma Hale about his visions of an ancient record etched on gold plates. Van Sciver ( One Dirty Tree) pulls off an ambitious feat: a nuanced graphic biography of Mormonism’s founder.
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