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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
Academic journal article from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 1
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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Bradford W. Wright. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001. 336 pp. $34.95 hbk.
Newcomers to the field of comic book history will find Comic Book Nation a highly readable overview of the history of mainstream comic books, with an emphasis on those of the two leading publishers, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. The book is arranged chronologically and takes the reader from the beginnings of the modern comic book in the late 1930s into the early 1990s. Black-and-white illustrations of comic book covers and pages supplement the text.
Wright approaches comics books as cultural history, modeling …
