Comics Arts Conference Session #3: Three Historians Approach the Cold War in Comics

In this roundtable, three historians discuss the intersection of Cold War and comic book history. Starting with a conversation about their field-specific approaches to postwar comics, they contextualize various comic genres in broader historical context. R. Joseph Parrott (The Ohio State University) argues that Silver Age stories, even more than promoting Cold War anti-communism, consistently revisited World War II as part of the national mythmaking that laid the foundations of U.S.…