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Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia (Paperback)
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Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There
the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic
word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says,
""Shazam!,"" he becomes Captain Marvel, the World's Mightiest
Mortal, one of the most popular comic book characters of the 1940s.
This book tells the story of that hero and the writers and artists
who created his magical adventures. The saga of Captain Marvel is
also that of artist C. C. Beck and writer Otto Binder, one of the
most innovative and prolific creative teams working during the
Golden Age of comics in the United States. While Beck was the
technician and meticulous craftsman, Binder contributed the still,
human voice at the heart of Billy's adventures. Later in his
career, Beck, like his friend and colleague Will Eisner, developed
a theory of comic art expressed in numerous articles, essays, and
interviews. A decade after Fawcett Publications settled a copyright
infringement lawsuit with Superman's publisher, Beck and Binder
became legendary, celebrated figures in comic book fandom of the
1960s. What Beck, Binder, and their readers share in common is a
fascination with nostalgia, which has shaped the history of comics
and comics scholarship in the United States. Billy Batson's
America, with its cartoon villains and talking tigers, remains a
living archive of childhood memories, so precious but elusive, as
strange and mysterious as the boy's first visit to the subway
tunnel. Taking cues from Beck's theories of art and from the
growing field of memory studies, Captain Marvel and the Art of
Nostalgia explains why we read comics and, more significantly, how
we remember them and the America that dreamed them up in the first
place.
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