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Thursday Trending Topics: Hero Politics

Published Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:27:06 -0600

Last updated Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:43:45 -0600

There has almost always been an element of the politics of the times in our comics. Even if you ignore policital cartoons and cartoonists — many of whom were hugely influential on the architects of the American comic book industry — the confluence of the height of the Golden Age of comics with World War II assured that there would be political themes in comic books then, and ever since. This decades-long ebb and flow of politics in mainstream comics came up a few times last year, and since the election year has now officially started, the conversation has again kicked up a notch.

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