The ages of The Avengers : essays on the earth's mightiest heroes in changing times

9780786474585
0786474580

vi, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

The Cuban Missile Crisis in Four Colors: "The Avengers Meet... 'Sub-Mariner'!" as an Allegory to Armageddon / Liam Webb
"The Avengers always stand ready to do their part": The Avengers and the Vietnam War / Lori Maguire
"The Kree-Skrull War" and the Growth of Uncertainty in the Cold War Era / Paul R. Kohl
Earth's Mightiest (Dysfunctional) Family: The Evolution of The Avengers Under Jim Shooter / Jason Sacks
Madonna's Birth and God's Death: Marvel Comics, the Death of God Movement, and the Religious Climate of the 1970s / Nathan Gibbard
"The Korvac Saga": Exiles from Reason and Fragments of a Contemporary Mythology / Giacomo Matteo Miniussi, translated by Laurie Schwartz
Stung by Stigmatization: Yellowjacket and Wasp Dis/Reassembled in the Age of Reagan / Peter W. Lee
Everything Old Is New Again: Figuring Out Who the Enemy Is in the 1980s / Jason LaTouche
The Earth's Mightiest Heroes and America's Post-Cold War Identity Crisis / John Darowski
The Spy King: How Christopher Priest's Version of the Black Panther Shook Up Earth's Mightiest Heroes / Todd Steven Burroughs
The Ultimates as Superheroes in the Age of Social Media and Celebrity / Morgan B. O'Rourke
"No!" Great Lakes Avengers and the Uses of Enfreakment / Jose Alaniz
The Uncivil Debate Within Marvel's Civil War / Mark Edlitz
Islamic Invaders: Secret Invasion and the Post-9/11 World of Marvil / Dyfrig Jones
"The one with the kids on the island": Avengers Arena and Teenage Dystopian Fiction / Joseph J. Darowski

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Darowski, Joseph J., editor