Ages of the Avengers

Joseph J. Darowski teaches English at Brigham Young University and has published on comic book superheroes such as the X-Men, Wonder Woman, and Superman as well as on television series such as Chuck and Frasier.

“goes into extensive detail about the individual characters starting from their origins and their transition and evolution through the decades...makes for fascinating reading”—Collectors’ Corner.

• Table of ContentsPreface delete(Joseph J. Darowski)The Cuban Missile Crisis in Four Colors: “The Avengers Meet … ‘Sub-Mariner’!” as an Allegory to Armageddon (Liam Webb)“The Avengers always stand ready to do their part”: The Avengers and the Vietnam War (Lori Maguire)“The ­Kree-Skrull War” and the Growth of Uncertainty in the Cold War Era (Paul R. Kohl)Earth’s Mightiest (Dysfunctional) Family: The EvolutionThe Avengers Under Jim Shooter (Jason Sacks)Madonna’s Birth and God’s Death: Marvel Comics, the Death of God Movement, and the Religious Climate of the 1970s (Nathan Gibbard)“The Korvac Saga”: Exiles from Reason and Fragments ofContemporary Mythology (Giacomo Matteo Miniussi; translated by Laurie Schwartz)Stung by Stigmatization: Yellowjacket and Wasp Dis/Reassembled in the Age of Reagan (Peter W. Lee)Everything Old Is New Again: Figuring Out Who the Enemyin the 1980s (Jason LaTouche)The Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and America’s ­Post–Cold War Identity Crisis (John Darowski)The Spy King: How Christopher Priest’s Version of the Black Panther Shook Up Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (Todd Steven Burroughs)The Ultimates as Superheroes in the Age of Social Media and Celebrity (Morgan B. ­O’Rourke)“No!” Great Lakes Avengers and the Uses of Enfreakment (José Alaniz)The Uncivil Debate Within Marvel’s Civil War (Mark Edlitz)Islamic Invaders: Secret Invasion and the Post–9/11 WorldMarvel (Dyfrig Jones)“The one with the kids on the island”: Avengers Arena and Teenage Dystopian Fiction (Joseph J. Darowski)About the ContributorsIndex