Truly the highlight of the book is Chapter 5: Reds, Romance, and Renegades. In fact, the super hero comic books advocated Roosevelt's New Deal "by portraying local politicians as self-serving tyrants and the federal government as the common man's chief benefactor" (pp. Wright finds that super hero comic books before World War II dealt with issues that the common man dealt with like corrupt police and corrupt politicians. He also incorporates the romance, war, crime, and horror genres when those genres impacted the medium. Wright mainly describes the history of the super-hero genre from the 1930's to today. Wright suggests that comic books had strong messages of many serious issues of the time and they affected the youth of America to become consumers. Savage Jr.'s Comic Books and America, 1945-1954, Wright uses comic books as a primary historical source of the values and ideology of a time period. Wright is a compelling history of American comic books since its roots in the 1930's. Reviewed by Michael Niederhausen (College of Mount St. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.īaltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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