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ISBN10: 0801874505, ISBN13: 9780801874505, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD] Softcover Paperback. A history of the comic book industry within the context of 20th-century American society. From Batman's Depression-era battles against corrupt local politicians and Captain America's one-man war against Nazi Germany to Iron Man's Cold War exploits in Vietnam and Spider-Man's confrontations with student protestors and drug use in the early 1970s, comic books have continually reflected the US's national mood, as Wright's imaginative reading of thousands of titles from the 1930s to the 1980s makes clear. In every genre - superhero, war, romance, crime and horror comic books - Wright finds that writers and illustrators used the medium to address a variety of serious issues, including racism, economic injustice, fascism, the threat of nuclear war, drug abuse and teenage alienation. At the same time, xenophobic wartime series proved that comic books could be as reactionary as any medium.Wright's lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the industry's ingenious efforts to market their products to legions of young but savvy fans; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups and child psychologists like Dr Fredric Wertham (whose 1954 book "Seduction of the Innocent", a salacious expose of the ...
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The John Hopkins University Press, Date: 2003. 344pp. Index. Original stiff wraps. Pages are bright and clean (unmarked). Binding is tight and secure. Covers are scuffed with bumping/rubbing rubbing to extremities. Nice copy overall. . Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Good +/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2003. The John Hopkins University Press ISBN 0801874505 9780801874505 [US]

ISBN10: 0801874505, ISBN13: 9780801874505, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form. Num Pages: 360 pages, 53, 53 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670. . 2003. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Johns Hopkins University Press 2003 9th Revised ed. Trade paperback New Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form. Num Pages: 360 pages, 53, 53 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670. 2003. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

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