Comic book nation : the transformation of youth culture in America / Bradford W. Wright.
As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for decades, comic books have figured prominently in the childhoods of most Americans alive today. The auth...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Superheroes for the common man : the birth of the comic book industry, 1933-1941
- Race, politics, and propaganda : comic books go to war, 1939-1945
- Confronting success : comic books and postwar America, 1945-1950
- Youth crisis : comic books and controversy, 1947-1950
- Reds, romance, and renegades : comic books and the culture of the Cold War, 1947-1954
- Turning point : comic books in crisis, 1954-1955
- Great power and great responsibility : superheroes in a superpower, 1956-1967
- Questioning authority : comic books and cultural change, 1968-1979
- Direct to the fans : the comic book industry since 1980
- Death of Superman, or, must there be a comic book industry?