Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns (Paperback)

from Gryphon-kl

Conceptually, this book was a good idea; during the time period in question, both comics and society were beginning to undergo changes that would reshape them significantly in the subsequent decades, and yet large areas of comics during the time period have had little written about them. Clearly,...

from bane47

I received this book through the Early Reviewers program. I was not expecting a collection of academic papers covering comic books during the post-WWII Cold War era. Collectively, the papers made a very entertaining subject incredibly boring. It was a struggle to make it through the entire book. ...

from johnnyapollo

I've always been a bit dismissive of post-war comics, especially in the treatment of the Communist threat. I think that by the 60's and 70's (when I mostly read comics off the stands) there were only a few remnants of those stories still being explored. When I became a bit older and a comic book ...

from aethercowboy

I have read several books published by McFarland. Of the five I have read, one of which was a republication for a book previously published under a different publisher. This, to date, has been the only book that I have deemed worth keeping (and its ten-year-old content wasn't even revised for the...

from gothamajp

The title of this collection of essays in many ways defines both its ambitious scope and why, in the end, it doesn't quite work; trying to provide an overview of a complete medium over an 18 year period is a daunting task, and by necessity means having to focus in on specific points rather than p...