A couple of new books of a scholarly bent:
The Ages of Iron Man: Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Timeswww.amazon.com/Ages-Iron-Man-Armored-Changing/dp/078647842X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449038745&sr=8-1&keywords=ages+of+iron+manContents:
“The Iron- Clad American”: Iron Man in the 1960s - Brian Patton
Tony Stark: Disabled Vietnam Veteran? - Craig This
“Gorgeous new menace”: Black Widow, Gender Roles and the
Subversion of Cold War Expectations of Domesticity - Natalie R. Sheppard
Fu Manchu Meets Maklu- 4: The Mandarin and Racial
Stereotypes - Richard A. Iadonisi
Does Khrushchev Tell Kennedy? Superpowered Rivalry and
Silver Age Iron Man - José Alaniz
Ike’s Nightmare: Iron Man and the Military- Industrial Complex
- Will Cooley and Mark C. Rogers
Socking It to Shell- Head: How Fan Mail Saved a Hero from the
Military- Industrial Complex - Charles Henebry
Countdown to #100: Escapist Heroism and the Challenges of
Modernity in the Late 1970s - John M. Vohlidka
Demon in a Bottle and Feet of Clay: David Michelinie and
Bob Layton on Iron Man - Jason Sacks
War Machine: Blackness, Power and Identity in Iron Man - Julian C. Chambliss
From Armor Wars to Iron Man 2.0: The Superhero Entrepreneur - Jean-Philipe Zanco
Cold Warrior at the End of the Cold War: John Byrne’s “War
Games” in an Era of Transition - Joseph J. Darowski
“I would be the bad guy”: Tony Stark as Villain of Marvel’s
Civil War - John Darowski
Feminizing the Iron: Tony Stark’s Rescue - Jason Michálek
Iron Icarus: Comics Futurism and the Man- Machine System - Rikk Mulligan
The Ages of the Incredible Hulk: Essays on the Green Goliath in Changing Timeswww.amazon.com/Ages-Incredible-Hulk-Goliath-Changing/dp/0786497335/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449038812&sr=8-1&keywords=ages+of+the+incredible+hulk Contents:
Smashing Cold War Consensus Culture: Hulk’s Journey from Monster to Hero - John Darowski and Joseph J. Darowski
Becoming Nature’s “Monster”: How the Gamma Bomb Reterritorializes the Human World - Justin Lerberg
A Globe-Trotting Atomic Weapon: Illustrating the Cold War Arms Race - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and César Alfonso Marino
The American Military in The Incredible Hulk During the Vietnam War - Lori Maguire
“The Monster’s Analyst” and the “Binomial Self” - José Alaniz
She-Hulk Crash!: The Evolution of Jen Walters, or How Marvel Comics Learned to Stop Worrying About Feminism and Love the Gamma Bomb - Jennifer A. Swartz-Levine
Jennifer Walters and the Savaging of American “Malaise” - Peter W. Lee
A Made Man: Joe Fixit, the ’80s and Consumption as Resistance - Matthew Alan Cicci
The Pantheon Era: Personal and Political Morality in Peter David’s Hulk - Jason Sacks
Metafictional Powers in the Postmodern Age: She-Hulk, Canon and the Nature of Superpowers - Roy T Cook
Bruce Banner on the Couch: Dubious Psychologizing in the 1980s and 1990s - Michael Smith
Live and Let Die: Jim Wilson, the Hulk and AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s - Cathy Leogrande
“You, on the other hand...”: Dual Identity and Superhero Storytelling in Dan Slott’s She-Hulk - Adam Capitanio
“I didn’t come here for a whisper”: Monsters, Violence and Heroes in World War Hulk and Post–9/11 America - Brooke Southgate
