History YMMV / AContractWithGod

** Fremme Hersh: A religious Jew whose [[DespairEventHorizon loss of his adopted daughter]] forced him to abandon his faith, used his synanogue's money to invest in real estate, and [[spoiler: died from a heart attack, which [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]] a punishment by the god for his defiance]].

* CareerResurrection: Before this book, Eisner was beloved for his groundbreaking series, ComicBook/TheSpirit, but when that ended in the 1950's, he was mostly doing military instruction manuals. After this book, he cemented his place as one the masters of the comic medium, pushed the art form to places it had rarely treked before and made even more successful graphic novels until his death.

** Scuggs: A {{Jerkass}} supervisor who bullied the tenement, possibly a pedophile, and yet [[spoiler: tricked by [[CreepyChild Rosie]] who took his money, killed his dog, and finally accused of being a rapist before [[DriventoSuicide killing himself]] when the police came to arrest him.]]
* RealitySubtext: Frimme Hersh's RageAgainstTheHeavens is based on the death of Will Eisner's daughter from Leukemia while Cookalien was based on his teenage years.

** Scuggs: A {{Jerkass}} supervisor who bullied the tenement, possibly a pedophile, and yet [[spoiler: tricked by [[CreepyChild Rosie]] who took his money, killed his dog, and finally accused of being a rapist before [[DriventoSuicide killing himself]] when the police came to arrest him.]]

* CareerResurrection: Before this book, Eisner was beloved for his groundbreaking series, ComicBook/TheSpirit, but when that ended in the 19 50's, he was mostly doing military instruction manuals. After this book, he cemented his place as one the masters of the comic medium, pushed the art form to places it had rarely treked before and made even more successful graphic novels until his death.

* CareerResurrection: Before this book, Eisner was beloved for his groundbreaking series, ComicBook/TheSpirit, but was mostly doing military instruction manuals. After this book, he cemented his place as one the masters of the comic medium, pushed the art form to places it had rarely treked before and made even more successful graphic novels until his death.

* CareerResurrection: Before this book, Eisner was beloved for his ComicBook/TheSpirit, but was mostly doing military instruction manuals. After this book, he cemented his place as one the masters of the comic medium, pushed the art form to places it had rarely treked before and made even more successful graphic novels until his death.

* CompleteMonster: Ironically, [[spoiler: Rosie who showed no remorse in murdering Scugg's dog and lead him to become accused of attempting to rape her.]]