| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 293 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index. |
| Contents |
The Cold War and the forging of the liberal consensus -- The enemy without: 1961-1968 -- The enemy within: 1969-1976 -- Retreat into privacy: 1977-1985 -- Betrayal in the mirror: 1986-1996 -- The new world order: 1996-2007 -- Civil war and the death of Captain America. |
| Summary |
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 the powers of the spider and becomes Spiderman. € Reed Richards and his friends are caught in a belt of cosmic radiation while orbiting the Earth in a spacecraft and are transformed into the Fantastic Four. While Stan Lee suggests he clung to the hackneyed idea of radioactivity in creating Marvel's stable of superheroes because of his limited imagination, radiation an. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marvel Comics Group.
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Marvel Comics Group. |
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Political aspects. |
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Cold War -- Influence.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1945-2007 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Costello, Matthew J. (Matthew John), 1963- Secret identity crisis. New York : Continuum, ©2009 9780826429971 (DLC) 2008030564 (OCoLC)231585603 |
| ISBN |
9781441108593 (electronic book) |
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1441108599 (electronic book) |
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9780826429971 |
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9780826429988 |
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0826429971 |
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082642998X |
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