Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia
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Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction “TINY FLASHES OF LIGHT” Comic Books, Nostalgia, and Billy Batson’s America
  9. Chapter 1 “A FABRIC OF ILLUSION” The Art of C. C. Beck
  10. Chapter 2 OTTO BINDER AND THE SECRET LIFE OF MR. TAWNY, THE TALKING TIGER
  11. Chapter 3 “BROTHER, THAT AIN’T IMAGINARY!” Billy Batson and World War II
  12. Chapter 4 STEAMBOAT’S AMERICA
  13. Chapter 5 WERTHAM’S LITTLE GOBLINS Captain Marvel, Fanzines, and the Art of Nostalgia
  14. Epilogue
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index