Table of Contents
Preface 1
Smashing Cold War Consensus Culture: Hulk's Journey from Monster to Hero John Darowski Joseph J. Darowski 7
Becoming Nature's "Monster": How the Gamma Bomb Reterritorializes the Human World Justin Lerberg 24
A Globe-Trotting Atomic Weapon: Illustrating the Cold War Arms Race Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns César Alfonso Marino 35
The American Military in The Incredible Hulk During the Vietnam War Lori Maguire 49
"The Monster's Analyst" and the "Binomial Self" José Alaniz 62
She-Hulk Crash! The Evolution of Jen Walters, or How Marvel Comics Learned to Stop Worrying About Feminism and Love the Gamma Bomb Jennifer A. Swartz-Levine 78
Jennifer Walters and the Savaging of American "Malaise" Peter W. Lee 93
A Made Man: Joe Fixit, the '80s and Consumption as Resistance Matthew Alan Cicci 111
The Pantheon Era: Personal and Political Morality in Peter David's Hulk Jason Sacks 124
Metafictional Powers in the Postmodern Age: She-Hulk, Canon and the Nature of Superpowers Roy T Cook 136
Bruce Banner on the Couch: Dubious Psychologizing in the 1980s and 1990s Michael Smith 156
Live and Let Die: Jim Wilson, the Hulk and AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s Cathy Leogrande 168
"You, on the other hand…": Dual Identity and Superhero Storytelling in Dan Slott's She-Hulk Adam Capitanio 181
"I didn't come here for a whisper": Monsters, Violence and Heroes in World War Hulk and Post-9/11 America Brooke Southgate 193
About the Contributors 207
Index 211
