Comic books and the Cold War, 1946-1962 : essays on graphic treatment of communism, the code and social concerns / edited by Chris York and Rafiel York.

"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 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: York, Chris, 1969-
York, Rafiel
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > Social aspects > United States.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Political aspects > United States.
Cold War > Comic books, strips, etc.
Cold War in comic books, strips, etc.
Cold War in popular culture.
Genre:
Comic books, strips, etc.
Physical Description:viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.