Comic books during the 1960's were definitely in the forefront due to what the plot of the stories were based on. Just like in most literary works, comics during the 1960's reflected what was going on during the current times. During the 1960's there was great social unrest due to the Vietnam War. People began to protest the war and this was depicted in a Spiderman comic where college kids were protesting against social issues that were occurring. Comic books used a great deal of this and it can be seen in Fantastic Four as well. During the 1960's there was the issue of the Cold War and the red scare which was occupying American's interests and the Fantastic Four comic books discusses the space race. Due to this it can definitely be seen that comic books were in the forefront of social transformation during 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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