Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 080186514X ISBN13: 9780801865145 Release Date: April 2001 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Length: 360 Pages Weight: 1.20 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.2" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for the past six decades, comic books have figured prominently in the childhoods of most Americans alive today. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-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 p