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      Are Batman and Superman the Barometer of Our Times? A Review of ‘Superheroes in Crisis’ : Superheroes in Crisis: Adjusting to Social Change in the 1960s and 1970s, Jeffrey K. Johnson, RIT Press, 122 pages, 2014, ISBN 9781933360805 (Print) ISBN 9781933360812 (e-book), Comics Studies Monograph Series, Gary Hoppenstand, Series Editor

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      The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
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          The WWII historian Jeffrey K. Johnson studies how the two comic book legends Superman and Batman have adapted successfully to American cultural and social landscapes through time. This is a book review of ‘Superheroes in Crisis’, a monograph that details some decisive moments from their creation in the late 30’s up to the 70’s in which both characters have transformed in order to maintain their relevance as what Johnson calls ‘cultural barometers’

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              The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
              Ubiquity Press
              2048-0792
              10 June 2015
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