Acknowledgments -- Introduction: France, The Second Comics Market -- Antiquity and Bandes Dessinees: Schizophrenic Nationalism Between Atlanticism and Marxism / Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang -- Did You Learn Your Strip?: The History of France as Comic Fad in the 1970s / Guillaume de Syon -- "Ils sont fous ces Gaulois!": Asterix, Lucky Luke, Freedom Fries, and the Love-Hate Relationship Between France and the United States / Annick Pellegrin -- Nation and Revolution -- Image and Text in Service of the Nation: Historically-themed Comic Books as Civic Education in 1980s Mexico / Melanie Huska -- Images of US Wars -- Who is Diana Prince?: The Amazon Army Nurse of World War II / Peter Lee -- Wonder Woman as Patriotic Icon: The Amazon Princess for the Nation and Femininity / Annessa Ann Babic -- Comic Containment: No Laughing Matter / James C. Lethbridge -- Graphic-Narrative-History: Defining the Essential Experience(s) of 9/11 / Lynda Goldstein -- Morals, Ethics, and Race -- Super Gay!: Depictions of Homosexuality in Mainstream Superhero Comics / Kara M. Kvaran -- The Man in the Gray Metal Suit: Dr. Doom, the Fantastic Four, and the Costs of Conformity / Micah Rueber -- Seen City: Frank Miller's Re-Imaging as a Cinematic "New Real" / Christina Dokou -- Dark Logic -- The Zombie Apocalypse: A Fictional State of Nature? / Faiz Sheikh -- Logicomix and the Enunciatory Apparatus / Beatrice Skordili -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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