Comic
Books.
Edited by David M. Haugen. Examining popular culture
series. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2005. 174pp.
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 0737725451
// ISBN-13: 978-0737725452
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.C662 2005 // Dewey: 741.5/09 22
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Introduction: Comic books: reflections of a changing nation
The defining
elements of comic books
Combining
words and pictures to create legitimate art - David Carrier ... 32
Conventions of the superhero
narrative - Mila Bongco ... 43
Letters pages foster community - Matthew Pustz ... 57
Comic books as a
reflection of cultural values
Comic
books during World War II: defending the American way of life - Ian
Gordon ... 69
Battling the Red menace in the
postwar years - William W. Savage, Jr. ... 82
The comics code: creators agree to
self-censor - Amy Kiste Nyberg ... 93
Underground comix and the 1960s
counterculture - Patrick Rosenkranz ... 102
Wimmen's comix - Trina Robbins ... 112
Evolving Black identity in
superhero comics - Marc Singer ... 122
New forms for a
contemporary audience
Serious
comics and graphic novels: true art for adults - David Thompson ... [137?]
Japanese manga invades America - Frederik L. Schodt ... 122
What's wrong with comics today? - Gregory Cwiklik ... 153
Blibliographical references ... 163
Index ... [174?]
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