Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

by Bradford W. Wright

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874505
• ISBN13: 9780801874505
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher