Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furor they raised. Contributors to this thoughtful collection, however, demonstrate that these comics constitute complex cultural documents that create a dialogue between mainstream values and alternative beliefs that question or complicate the grand narratives of the era. Close analysis of individual titles, including EC comics, Superman, romance comics, and other, more obscure works, reveals the ways Cold War culture--from atomic anxieties and the…mehr
Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furor they raised. Contributors to this thoughtful collection, however, demonstrate that these comics constitute complex cultural documents that create a dialogue between mainstream values and alternative beliefs that question or complicate the grand narratives of the era. Close analysis of individual titles, including EC comics, Superman, romance comics, and other, more obscure works, reveals the ways Cold War culture--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.
Chris York has taught English at Pine Technical College in Pine City, Minnesota. He has been an active participant in the Comics and Comic Art Area at the National Popular Culture Association Conference for nearly a decade, and his comics scholarship has appeared in the International Journal of Comic Art. Rafiel York is a teacher in Jackson, Minnesota.
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Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Frederic Wertham, Containment, and Comic Books CHRIS YORK and RAFIEL YORK PART I : CONTAINING COMMUNISM, CONTROLLING THE ATOM 1. Lights, Camera, Action 101: A Brief Lesson on How to See an Atomic Bomb NATHAN ATKINSON 2. Decrypting Espionage Comic Books in 1950s America PETER LEE 3. "He Was a Living Breathing Human Being": Harvey Kurtzman's War Comics and the "Yellow Peril" in 1950s Containment Culture CHRISTOPHER B. FIELD 4. "I Can Pass Right Through Solid Matter!": How the Flash Upheld American Values While Breaking the Speed Limit FREDERICK A. WRIGHT 5. Jack Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown: Establishing Order in an Age of Anxiety PHILLIP PAYNE and PAUL J. SPAETH 6. Red Menace on the Moon: Containment in Space as Depicted in Comics of the 1950s JOHN DONOVAN PART II: CONTAINING SEXUALITY IN THE COLD WARBR> 7. Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 JEANNE GARDNER 8. Rebellion in Riverdale RAFIEL YORK 9. The Amazon Mystique: Subverting Cold War Domesticity in Wonder Woman Comics, 1948-1965 RUTH MCCLELLAND-NUGENT 10. The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics CHRISTOPHER J. HAYTON and SHEILA HAYTON 11. Horror Camp: Homoerotic Subtext in EC Comics DIANA GREEN PART III: THE PROBLEM OF CONSENSUS 12. "Dedicated to the Youth of America": Deviant Narration in Crime Does Not Pay CHRIS YORK 13. MAD's Guest Writers LAWRENCE RODMAN 14. Beyond the Frontier: Turok, Son of Stone and the Native American in Cold War America CHRIS YORK 15. East Europeans in the Cold War Comic This Godless Communism ALEXANDER MAXWELL 16. The Fantastic Four: A Mirror of Cold War America RAFIEL YORK About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Frederic Wertham, Containment, and Comic Books CHRIS YORK and RAFIEL YORK PART I : CONTAINING COMMUNISM, CONTROLLING THE ATOM 1. Lights, Camera, Action 101: A Brief Lesson on How to See an Atomic Bomb NATHAN ATKINSON 2. Decrypting Espionage Comic Books in 1950s America PETER LEE 3. "He Was a Living Breathing Human Being": Harvey Kurtzman's War Comics and the "Yellow Peril" in 1950s Containment Culture CHRISTOPHER B. FIELD 4. "I Can Pass Right Through Solid Matter!": How the Flash Upheld American Values While Breaking the Speed Limit FREDERICK A. WRIGHT 5. Jack Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown: Establishing Order in an Age of Anxiety PHILLIP PAYNE and PAUL J. SPAETH 6. Red Menace on the Moon: Containment in Space as Depicted in Comics of the 1950s JOHN DONOVAN PART II: CONTAINING SEXUALITY IN THE COLD WARBR> 7. Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 JEANNE GARDNER 8. Rebellion in Riverdale RAFIEL YORK 9. The Amazon Mystique: Subverting Cold War Domesticity in Wonder Woman Comics, 1948-1965 RUTH MCCLELLAND-NUGENT 10. The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics CHRISTOPHER J. HAYTON and SHEILA HAYTON 11. Horror Camp: Homoerotic Subtext in EC Comics DIANA GREEN PART III: THE PROBLEM OF CONSENSUS 12. "Dedicated to the Youth of America": Deviant Narration in Crime Does Not Pay CHRIS YORK 13. MAD's Guest Writers LAWRENCE RODMAN 14. Beyond the Frontier: Turok, Son of Stone and the Native American in Cold War America CHRIS YORK 15. East Europeans in the Cold War Comic This Godless Communism ALEXANDER MAXWELL 16. The Fantastic Four: A Mirror of Cold War America RAFIEL YORK About the Contributors Index
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