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Wright,
Bradford
W. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation
of Youth Culture in America. Baltimore and London:
Johns
Hopkins University Press,
2001. 336 pp. ISBN 080186514X (hc). Paperback New edition: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2003. ISBN 0801874505.
[Contents from the original
hardcover edition.]
Preface
... ix
Introduction
... xiii
- Superheroes for the
Common Man: The Birth of
the Comic Book Industry, 1933-1941 ... 2
- Race, Politics, and
Propaganda: Comic Books Go
to War, 1939-1945 ... 30
- Confronting Success:
Comic Books and Postwar
America, 1945-1950 ... 56
- Youth Crisis: Comic
Books and Controversy,
1947-1950 ... 86
- Reds, Romance, and
Renegades: Comic Books and
the Cyulture of the Cold War, 1947-1954 ... 109
- Turning Point: Comic
Books in Crisis, 1954-1955
... 154
- Great Power and Great
Responsibility:
Superheroes in a Superpower, 1956-1967 ... 180
- Questioning Authority:
Comic Books and Cultural
Change, 1968-1979 ... 226
- Direct to the Fans:
The Comic Book Industry
Since 1980 ... 254
Epilogue:
The Death
of Superman, or, Must There Be a Comic Book Industry? ... 282
Notes ... 287
Notes on Sources ... 323
Index ... 331
Reviews:
- Cave.
Damien. [review.] Salon.com,
25 May 2001. [read text - registration required]
- Drabelle,
Dennis. "Amazing
Adventures." Washington Post
Book World April 8, 2001: BW05.
- Swanson,
Peter. "Maus Culture." [review essay of Comic
Book
Nation and Joe Sacco, Safe
Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995.] Atlantic
Unbound: Crosscurrents, March 29, 2001. [read
text]
- Wolf-Meyer, Matthew.
[review.] Reconstruction 1.1 (Fall 2001). on-line
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