Mysterious travelers : Steve Ditko and the search for a new liberal identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kruse, Zack (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Series:	Great comics artists.
Subjects:	Ditko, Steve > Criticism and interpretation. Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism. Comic books, strips, etc. > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface: "All lives change"
"From out of the depths!": rethinking the work of Steve Ditko
Beyond what we are told is fact: mystic liberalism and closing the gap between "is" and "ought"
Overwhelmed by a cloak of darkness: dark karma and cosmic intraspace in early Ditko comics
"'Twas Steve's idea": a secret racial history and a search for the self with Dr. Strange
Grounded in a more credible world: Spider-Man, Blue Beetle, the Question, and a more practical self-actualization
The right to kill: the Question, Mr. A, and life versus anti-life
These magazines are haunted! Steve Ditko beyond the silver age
"If I like it, I hope somebody else likes it, too": mystic liberalism confronted in real and imagined worlds.