Comic books and the Cold War, 1946-1962 : essays on graphic treatment of communism, the code and social concerns
Chris York (Editor), Rafiel York (Editor)
"Close analysis of individual titles--from atomic anxieties and the nuclear family to communist hysteria and social inequalities--manifests itself in the comic books of the era. By illuminating the complexities of mid-century graphic novels, this study demonstrates that postwar popular culture was far from monolithic in its representation of American values and beliefs"--Provided by publisher
Comics criticism
1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) : illustrations
9780786489473, 9786613455765, 9781283455763, 0786489472, 6613455768, 1283455765
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Introduction : Frederic Wertham, containment, and comic books / Chris York and Rafiel York
Lights, camera, action 101 : a brief lesson on how to see an atomic bomb / Nathan Atkinson
Decrypting espionage comic books in 1950s America / Peter Lee
"He was a living breathing human being" : Harvey Kurtzman's war comics and the "yellow peril" in 1950s containment culture / Christopher B. Field
"I can pass right through solid matter!" : how The Flash upheld American values while breaking the speed limit / Frederick A. Wright
Jack Kirby's challengers of the unknown : establishing order in an age of anxiety / Phillip Payne and Paul J. Spaeth
Red menace on the moon : containment in space as depicted in comics of the 1950s / John Donovan
Girls who sinned in secret and paid in public : romance comics, 1949-1954 / Jeanne Gardner
Rebellion in Riverdale / Rafiel York
The Amazon mystique : subverting Cold War domesticity in Wonder Woman comics, 1948-1965 / Ruth McClelland-Nugent
The girls in white : nurse images in early Cold War era romance and war comics / Christopher J. Hayton and Sheila Hayton
Horror camp : homoerotic subtext in EC Comics / Diana Green
"Dedicated to the youth of America" : deviant narration in crime does not pay / Chris York
Mad's guest writers / Lawrence Rodman
Beyond the frontier : Turok, Son of Stone and the Native American in Cold War America / Chris York
East Europeans in "this godless communism" / Alexander Maxwell
The fantastic four : a mirror of Cold War America / Rafiel York