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Frank Miller’s goddamn Batman

Posted on October 20, 2014 by I.M. Baytor

                    All kinds of people have written Batman stories. Not just people: even Snoopy has done it. But one author has the particularity of having written both the most critically acclaimed Batman comics of all time, and the most … Continue reading →

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Batman comics and the late Cold War – part 2

Posted on October 6, 2014 by I.M. Baytor

When people think of the end of the Cold War, they think of the fall of the Berlin Wall or of Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank in the Red Square. Me, I think of the Dark Knight fighting a … Continue reading →

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Batman comics and the late Cold War – part 1

Posted on October 2, 2014 by I.M. Baytor

1980s’ sci-fi thrillers gave us some of the bleakest visions of the future. They dealt with either impending conflict between the US and the USSR – Escape from New York, The Day After, Red Dawn – or its post-apocalyptic outcome … Continue reading →

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Batman comics and the Cold War détente

Posted on September 22, 2014 by I.M. Baytor

While access to new sources and archives, not to mention shifting paradigms and the cultural turn, have helped produce a historiography on the Cold War that moved beyond orthodox, revisionist, and neorealist interpretations to embrace, among others, constructivist, postcolonial, pericentric, … Continue reading →

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