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Author:   Joseph J. Darowski
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9781476662251

ISBN 10:   1476662258
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   27 March 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface The Brave and Bold Beginning of the Silver Age Superteam (John Darowski) A League of Orphans and Single Parents: Making a Family in an Era of Father Knows Best (Louie Dean ­Valencia-García)18 The Caged Bird Sings: The Justice League of America and the Domestic Containment of Black Canary (Thomas C. Donaldson) Social Justice and Silver Age Superheroes (W.C. Bamberger) Relevance in Wonderland: The Mixed Success of Gardner Fox’s Message Comic Books (Gene Phillips) A Crisis of Infinite Dearth: Winning Vietnam via the ­Never-Ending War on ­Earth-X (Peter W. Lee) The Benefits of Doubts: Steve Englehart’s Radical Take Tradition (Jason Sacks) The ­Not-So-Golden Age: Gender, Race and Nostalgia All-Star Squadron 1981–1987 (Ruth ­McClelland-Nugent) Gritty Levity: The Giffen/DeMatteis Era of the Justice League (Charles Henebry) “I’m Batman! Bwah ha ha!” Comedy in the Grim ’n’ Gritty Eighties (Brian Cogan) Lacking Leadership: The Justice League Europe’s Place the DC Universe (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo Acosta Lando) Extreme Transitions: Trends and Trepidations from 1992 to 1996 (D.R. Hammontree) What We’ve Got Here Is Failure to Communicate: Trust, Technology and Fear in “The Tower of Babel” (Nicole Freim) “Whether we fear we do too much—or not enough”: JLA/Avengers and the ­Cross-Universe Causes of Conflict (Joseph J. Darowski) Madwomen: Sexism as Nostalgia, or Feminism in The New Frontier (Jennifer ­Swartz-Levine) Absolute Secrets Kept Absolutely: Public Memory and Forgetting in Identity Crisis (Daniel J. ­O’Rourke) The Good, the Bad and the Reboot: Justice League in the New (Cathy Leogrande) About the Contributors Index

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These essays provide an insightful and entertaining exploration of how a superhero team, spearheaded by America s most iconic pop culture creations, reflects, and sometimes critiques, American attitudes toward justice, morality and the use of power. Randy Duncan, director of Henderson State University s Comics Studies program, co-author of <i>The Power of Comics</i>; Joseph J. Darowski s <i>The Ages of the Justice League: Essays on America s Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times</i> is an exceptional study that is highly informative, critically brilliant, and fun to read. It cements his already outstanding reputation as one of the foremost comics scholars in America. Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State University.

Author Information

Joseph J. Darowski teaches English at Brigham Young University and has published on comic book superheroes such as the X-Men, Wonder Woman, and Superman as well as on television series such as Chuck and Frasier.

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