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Preface
“Superman Says You Can Slap a Jap!”
Superman Comic Books Cover the War
The Newspaper Comic Strips
Radio and Animation
Fighting, but Not Winning, the War
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Supervillains and Cold War Tensions in the 1950s
Fear of Nuclear Radiation
Fear of Invasion
Fears Related to the Space Race
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kryptonite, Radiation, and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Up in the Sky!
More Fun with Fission
Atomic Adversaries
Imaginary Stories, Real Death
A Nuclear Now
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Truth, Justice, and the American Way in Franco’s Spain
Forms and Functions of Superman Comic Books in the 1960s
Strange Visitor from Another Planet: Myth and the Super-man
Lois Lane: A Super Woman in a Man’s World
Imagining “Metropolis”: Play and Youth Super-Empowerment
Supermán Returns: The Search for Truth, Justice, and the Spanish Way
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Inflexible Girls of Steel
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Black Like Lois
Vathlo Island and the Implementation of a Multi-Racial Krypton
Lois Lane’s Experience of the African American Plight
The Legacy of “I Am Curious (Black)”
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Red, White and Bruised
Striding the World Like a Colossus
Superman Unbound
Vietnam and Superman
Too Much Reality
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Struggle Within
The End of Green Kryptonite
Kent Moves to Television
The Sand Thing
“... the most powerful being on Earth!”
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“It’s Morning Again in America”
Epideictic Rhetoric
DC in the 1980s
The Man of Steel
“Morning in America”
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The New “Man of Steel” Is a Quiche-Eating Wimp!
Press Release and Response
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
These fools at DC are turning Superman into a wimp!
Clark Kent has become a quiche-eating yuppie!
Confluence
Yuppies and Reagan’s America
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
More Human Than (Super) Human
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The “Triangle Era” of Superman
Editorial Guidance
The Triumph of Continuity in the Death and Life of Superman
Twilight of the Super-Team
Lessons from the Line
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Searching for Meaning in “The Death of Superman”
The Storyline
The Death of Superman and America’s Identity Crisis
Superboy and the Last Son of Krypton: America’s Role After the Cold War
Steel and the Cyborg Superman: Technology and America’s Changing Lifestyle
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Death, Bereavement, and the Superhero Funeral
Death, Representation and Body Politics
The Deaths of Superman
Funeral for a Friend
The Best and the Brightest or the 500
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Superman and the Corruption of Power
JLA: Earth 2: Total Corruption
The Dark Knight Strikes Again: Corruption Due to Weakness
Superman: Red Son: Corruption Due to Good Intentions
The Legend Lives On
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
This Isn’t Your Grandfather’s Comic Book Universe
The Original Is Back
Heroes Divided
Culture Wars
Superman v. Superman
Of Man and Superman
Three Generations of Supermen
Climax
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
In a World Without Superman, What Is the American Way?
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Traveling Hopefully in Search of American National Identity
CHAPTER NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the Contributors
Index
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