Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America

by Matthew Costello and Matthew J. Costello

Book Overview

What Cold War-era superheroes reveal about American society and foreign policy
Physicist Bruce Banner, caught in the nuclear explosion of his experimental gamma bomb, is transformed into the rampaging green monster, the Hulk. High school student Peter Parker, bitten by an irradiated spider, gains its powers and becomes Spiderman. Reed Richards and his friends are caught in a belt of cosmic radiation while orbiting the Earth in a spacecraft...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082642998X
• ISBN13: 9780826429988
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"