Ages of the Incredible Hulk

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.

“the first academic book devoted to such an intriguing character now over a half century old...grab a copy”—The Journal of American Culture; “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 ContentsPrefaceSmashing Cold War Consensus Culture: Hulk’s Journey from Monster to Hero (John Darowski and Joseph J. Darowski)Becoming Nature’s “Monster”: How the Gamma Bomb Reterritorializes the Human World (Justin Lerberg)A ­Globe-Trotting Atomic Weapon: Illustrating the Cold War Arms Race (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and César Alfonso Marino)The American Military in The Incredible Hulk During the Vietnam War (Lori Maguire)“The Monster’s Analyst” and the “Binomial Self” (José Alaniz) She-Hulk Crash! The Evolution of Jen Walters, or How Marvel Comics Learned to Stop Worrying About Feminism and Love the Gamma Bomb (Jennifer A. ­Swartz-Levine)Jennifer Walters and the Savaging of American “Malaise” (Peter W. Lee)A Made Man: Joe Fixit, the ’80s and Consumption as Resistance (Matthew Alan Cicci)The Pantheon Era: Personal and Political Morality in Peter David’s Hulk (Jason Sacks)Metafictional Powers in the Postmodern Age: ­She-Hulk, Canon and the Nature of Superpowers (Roy T Cook)Bruce Banner on the Couch: Dubious Psychologizing in the 1980s and 1990s (Michael Smith)Live and Let Die: Jim Wilson, the Hulk and AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s (Cathy Leogrande)“You, on the other hand…”: Dual Identity and Superhero Storytelling in Dan Slott’s She-Hulk (Adam Capitanio)“I didn’t come here for a whisper”: Monsters, Violence and Heroes in World War Hulk and Post–9/11 America (Brooke Southgate)About the ContributorsIndex