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Allan W. Austin
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: Into the “Gutters” 1
- CHAPTER 1 “World’s Finest”? The Wartime Superhero and Race, 1941–1945 19
- CHAPTER 2 Struggling for Social Relevance: DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945–1965 50
- CHAPTER 3 “We’re All Brothers!”: The Ideal of Liberal Brotherhood in the 1960s and 1970s 88
- CHAPTER 4 Guess Who’s Coming to Save You? The Rise of the Ethnic Superhero in the 1960s and 1970s 126
- CHAPTER 5 “Something for Everyone”: The Superteam in the Age of Multiculturalism, 1975–1996 176
- CHAPTER 6 Replacement Heroes and the Quest for Inclusion, 1985–2011 216
- CHAPTER 7 Something Old, Something New: Heroes Reborn and Reimagined, 1990–2015 255
- Coda: Born Again (and Again and Again . . . and Again and Again . . .) 293
- Notes 311
- Bibliography 343
- Index 362
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: Into the “Gutters” 1
- CHAPTER 1 “World’s Finest”? The Wartime Superhero and Race, 1941–1945 19
- CHAPTER 2 Struggling for Social Relevance: DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945–1965 50
- CHAPTER 3 “We’re All Brothers!”: The Ideal of Liberal Brotherhood in the 1960s and 1970s 88
- CHAPTER 4 Guess Who’s Coming to Save You? The Rise of the Ethnic Superhero in the 1960s and 1970s 126
- CHAPTER 5 “Something for Everyone”: The Superteam in the Age of Multiculturalism, 1975–1996 176
- CHAPTER 6 Replacement Heroes and the Quest for Inclusion, 1985–2011 216
- CHAPTER 7 Something Old, Something New: Heroes Reborn and Reimagined, 1990–2015 255
- Coda: Born Again (and Again and Again . . . and Again and Again . . .) 293
- Notes 311
- Bibliography 343
- Index 362