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How could it be that comic books - the once-reviled form of lowbrow popular culture - are now the trend for Hollywood blockbusters, the foundation for best-selling video gaming, and the ideas for literary visual novels? In Demanding Value, Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and tactics of this art and subculture to give a social background of the American comic book over the last 75 years. Lopes analyzes the cultural production, reception, and ingestion of American comic books throughout background. He graphs the climb of superheroes, the proliferation of serials, and the emergence of graphic novels. Demanding Value explores how comic books created in the 1930s were perceived as a "menace" in the 1950s, and then later become enthusiasts' items and eventually "hip" fiction in the 1980s through today. Using a theoretical framework to examine the engineering of comic book culture - the designers, publishers, visitors, and fans - Lopes talks about how and just why comic books have captured the public's creativeness and gained a fanatic cult pursuing.
