Comic Book Culture

In a day and age in which college standards have dropped so low that it is possible to graduate from a name university without having read a book, a course on “Comics and Culture” might seem apropos but that irony is lost on the creators of the Juniata College course. “In the 1970s there were superheroes like Green Lantern and Green Arrow,” history professor David C. Hsuing told Elizabeth Quill of The Chronicle of Higher Education. “They did not kill red aliens threatening the earth with some cosmic gizmo, but they tackled problems like pollution, poverty, overpopulation and racism.”

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.