Comics do offer stereotype under the race representation. Many comics deal with hero stories. However, the characteristics of the heros varies differently according to the character's race. Luke Cage is one of the clear example that, comics do offer stereotype. He is black hero who happens to earn his power while he is in the prison. And he had very aggressive characteristics with anger. His character was reflecting time frame of the Cvil Right Movements and representing angry black community who wanted changes.The stereotypes through which American popular culture often interprets and represents racial identity operate not only as tools of defamation but also as vehicles for far more subtle manipulations of race. Comics often tend to create characteristics based on it's race. The characteristics of character will be decide on the stereotype of it's race to play safe for the readers. Especially for black characters in comics always would contain some kind of violence as it's characteristic. Because race of character should meet the stereotype in order to sell to readers.
Throughout the 60’s, comics were at the forefront of social transformation. Possibly the best example of this is through comics reflection of the public’s view of the Vietnam War. At the beginning of the war a majority of Americans fully supported the cause. The idea that communism, the most evil idea conceived, could spread first through South-East Asia and eventually to the US lead Americans to accept the need to occupy Vietnam. However as the war progressed it became more obvious that it was less to defend democracy and actually just a proxy war against Russia. As support for the war diminished, comics greatly altered their position on the war to question the causes of the war, and whether the US should actually be there. The comic Iron Man accurately represented this shift in support as he stopped dealing arms, and took a moral stand against their use. As well as Vietnam War culture, comics also accurately portrayed youth culture in the US throughout the 60’s. Comics suc...
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