Comics were at the forefront of social transformation in the 1960's. The reason this is true is because the comics were paralleling what was going on in the real world. Stan Lee's Spiderman exemplified this by having a lot of current issues tied into the plots. Spiderman as Peter Parker would often run into college age students protesting for an issue that they would actually be protesting for in real life. This gave some readers a different perspective on the issues that were flooding their news. The social transformation from the 1950's to the 1960's was partially blamed on comics. So that fact alone means that comics were seen a cause for change and thus putting them at the forefront of social transformation in the 1960's.
Ohhh my goodness... When I decided on trying to analyze the mythological origins and references in superhero comics, I had no idea the can of worms I was opening up... On the one hand, it was awesome to see just how many connections there were between superheroes and psychology/mythology/philosophy, but all the information also made it terribly difficult to distinguish what I should be using and how to tie it all together. When I was talking to one of my sorority sisters about it she said, "Oh yeah, well, research essays are kind of like putting together puzzles..." and I think that really sums up what writing this paper was like for me. Fortunately, I was really interested throughout the whole process and I very much enjoyed writing the paper. Being a psychology major, I was especially interested in reading about the Jungian archetypes that had a lot of parallels with major modern comic books superheroes. I was also able to incorporate Joseph Campbell's "hero cycle...
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