Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
The time was 1973, and superheroes had some growing up to do.
The signs were already there as the genre eased into its fifth decade as the dominant force in American comic books. 1968 had seen the introduction of Robert Crumb's Zap Comics [1], an underground comic more concerned with counterculture trends and bucking the establishment than chronicling the exploits of spandex-wearing conservatives. The medium was testing its boundaries, finding flexibility where once there had been rigidity, and soon superheroes began to look like a timelost collection of crusaders who spoke to a generation long since past.
Repository Citation
Blumberg, Arnold T.. "The Night Gwen Stacy Died:' The End of Innocence and the Birth of the Bronze Age." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 3, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1–13. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol3/iss4/2
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