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Secret identity crisis : comic books and the unmasking of Cold War America / Matthew J. Costello

Author
Costello, Matthew J. (Matthew John), 1963-
Published
New York : Continuum, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 293 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
The Cold War and the forging of the liberal consensus -- The enemy without: 1961-1968 -- The enemy within: 1969-1976 -- Retreat into privacy: 1977-1985 -- Betrayal in the mirror: 1986-1996 -- The new world order: 1996-2007 -- Civil war and the death of Captain America.
Summary
Physicist Bruce Banner, caught in the nuclear explosion of his experimental gamma bomb is transformed into the rampaging green monster, the Hulk. € High school student Peter Parker, bitten by an irradiated spider, gains the powers of the spider and becomes Spiderman. € Reed Richards and his friends are caught in a belt of cosmic radiation while orbiting the Earth in a spacecraft and are transformed into the Fantastic Four. While Stan Lee suggests he clung to the hackneyed idea of radioactivity in creating Marvel's stable of superheroes because of his limited imagination, radiation an.
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ISBN
9781441108593 (electronic bk.)
1441108599 (electronic bk.)
1282871285
9781282871281
9786612871283
6612871288
9780826429971
9780826429988
0826429971
082642998X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index.
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