Atomic comics : cartoonists confront the nuclear world / Ferenc Morton Szasz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Before Hiroshima -- The initial reaction: 1945-early 1960s -- Atomic comics change direction: the mid-1950s to the present day.

The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power. Atomic Comics examines how comic books, comic strips, and other cartoon media represented the Atomic Age from the early 1920s to the present. Through newspaper adventure strips like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, the comic book exploits of superhero figures such as Atomic Man, Spider-Man, and Captain Atom, and nuclear adversaries like Dr. Octopus and the Atomic Skull, the public acquired a new scientific vocabulary and discovered the major controversies surrounding nuclear science. Ferenc Morton Szasz's analysis of the themes, content, and imagery of scores of comics that appeared largely in the United States and Japan offers a perspective on the way popular culture shaped American comprehension of the fissioned atom for more than three generations.

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