Number of Pages
204 Pages
Book Title
Ages of the Avengers : Essays on the Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Changing Times
Lccn
2014-032945
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Dewey Decimal
741.5/973
Lc Classification Number
Pn6728.A9a38 2014
Table of Content
Table of Contents Preface (Joseph J. Darowski) 1 The Cuban Missile Crisis in Four Colors: "The Avengers Meet ... 'Sub-Mariner'!" as an Allegory to Armageddon (Liam Webb) 5 "The Avengers always stand ready to do their part": The Avengers and the Vietnam War (Lori Maguire) 12 "The Kree-Skrull War" and the Growth of Uncertainty in the Cold War Era (Paul R. Kohl) 25 Earth's Mightiest (Dysfunctional) Family: The Evolution of The Avengers Under Jim Shooter (Jason Sacks) 31 Madonna's Birth and God's Death: Marvel Comics, the Death of God Movement, and the Religious Climate of the 1970s (Nathan Gibbard) 45 "The Korvac Saga": Exiles from Reason and Fragments of a Contemporary Mythology (Giacomo Matteo Miniussi; translated by Laurie Schwartz) 56 Stung by Stigmatization: Yellowjacket and Wasp Dis/Reassembled in the Age of Reagan (Peter W. Lee) 65 Everything Old Is New Again: Figuring Out Who the Enemy Is in the 1980s (Jason LaTouche) 79 The Earth's Mightiest Heroes and America's Post-Cold War Identity Crisis (John Darowski) 92 The Spy King: How Christopher Priest's Version of the Black Panther Shook Up Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Todd Steven Burroughs) 103 The Ultimates as Superheroes in the Age of Social Media and Celebrity (Morgan B. O'Rourke) 120 "No!" Great Lakes Avengers and the Uses of Enfreakment (José Alaniz) 139 The Uncivil Debate Within Marvel's Civil War (Mark Edlitz) 155 Islamic Invaders: Secret Invasion and the Post-9/11 World of Marvel (Dyfrig Jones) 165 "The one with the kids on the island": Avengers Arena and Teenage Dystopian Fiction (Joseph J. Darowski) 178 About the Contributors 189 Index 193
Copyright Date
2014
Era Range
18
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"goes into extensive detail about the individual characters starting from their origins and their transition and evolution through the decades...makes for fascinating reading"-- Collectors' Corner ., "goes into extensive detail about the individual characters starting from their origins and their transition and evolution through the decades...makes for fascinating reading"-- Collector's Corner .
Target Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
Topic
Film / General, Popular Culture, Anthologies, General, Comics & Graphic Novels
