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The Bronze Age of Comics and the Genre of Relevancy
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
early, civil, drugs, graphic, censorship, students, God, hippy, symbolize, agent, Jewish, relevant, Asian, patriotism, black, writers, pollution, heroin, adult
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late 60s, early 70s
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a time of social change
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a youth movement, spawned the            generation
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demonstrations against war in Vietnam
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issues of            rights
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issues of womens' liberation
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led to strive between a younger generation and a generation of authority
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comic sales on the down swing
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comic book companies asked themselves how they could stay                  to this generation
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Captain America
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torn in the            70s
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wasn't sure what he should be or                    anymore
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he was created in an era of WWII and super                     
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during a very popular war against a very evil threat, the Nazis, in particular
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now he is in a Vietnam era, and sent onto a college campus
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who is he to side with, the National Guard or the                 
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minorities were beginning to be represented
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Luke Cage
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Hero for Hire
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the first African American superhero
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Master of Kung Fu
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an            superhero
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Green Lantern / Green Arrow
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Green Lantern was portrayed as the conservative superhero
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Green Arrow was the liberal superhero
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attempted to enlighten Green Lantern as to the ills that were plaguing America
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racism
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overpopulation
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political corruption
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an elderly black man tells Green Lantern, that he has heard he has saved the purple skins on some planet, and the orange skins on some other planet, and wants to know what he is going to do for the            skin people of America
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Green Lantern answers that he can't answer that, not yet, he needs to go on his own personal journey, accompanied by Green Arrow
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they enter the world of           
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not as users but became aware of the problem of drugs
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Green Arrows own son Speedy was discovered to have become a              addict
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this was a transgression against the comic code authority
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Stan Lee at Marvel also had Spider-Man showing the down-side of using drugs
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that was the beginning of the end of the                     
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Justice League America
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Man, they name is brother
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other issue dealt with pollution
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Wonder Woman
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gave up her pretty little red, white and blue outfit
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adapted a secret            look
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Vietnam War was over
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the Age of Relevancy gave way to a new era in 1978 with the first appearance of the                novel
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A Contract with       
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the first being from Will Eisner
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no super heroes
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about a pious              man
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when child dies, he feels God has failed him
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The Watchman
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the ultimate deconstruction of the super hero
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Frank Miller, the Black Knight Returns
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makes the character accessible to worldwide            audiences
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dealt with levels of violence we had not seen before
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characterization
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comics became more and more popular
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people who would normally write a novel would write a graphic novel
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industry was getting good               

Ideas and Concepts:

From the political comic book department, via tonight's Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture class:

"In 1970, in response to the social movement of the 1960s and in an attempt for comic books to stay relevant, the superhero Green Arrow was paired with a more law and order-oriented hero, Green Lantern, in a ground-breaking, socially conscious comic book series.

While Green Arrow was the liberal superhero, Green Lantern was portrayed as the conservative superhero. Green Arrow attempted to enlighten Green Lantern as to the ills that were plaguing America, e.g. racism, pollution, overpopulation, and political corruption.

In one episode, an elderly black man tells Green Lantern that he had heard that Green Lantern had saved the purple skins on some planet, and the orange skins on some other planet, and wants to know what he is going to do for the black skin people of America.

Green Lantern answers that he can't answer that just yet. He needs to first go on his own personal journey, accompanied by Green Arrow."
1930s: The Origin of the American Comic Book
1938: The Birth of Superman
The People Behind the Golden Age of Comic Books
Patriotic Superheroes
Comic Books after World War II
Comic Books in the McCarthy Era
1954: Fredric Wertham's Impact on the Comic Book Industry
1960s: The Silver Age of Comics
The Bronze Age of Comics and the Genre of Relevancy