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Comic Book Nation The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

Comic Book Nation The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

By Bradford W. Wright

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About the book

As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for the past six decades, comic books have figured prominently in the childhoods of most Americans alive today. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society.From Batman's De...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780801874505

Publisher

JHU Press

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Comic Book Nation The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

Format

Paperback

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