Volume 1. Comics and the historical imagination in the United States
volume 2. Comics and the historical imagination in the world.
Volume 1. Acknowledgments
Introduction / Dorian L. Alexander, Michael Goodrum, and Philip Smith
History and form. 1. Coming home to "legacy": Marvel's problem with history / Martin Flanagan ; 2. Diana in no man's land: Wonder Woman and the history of the World War / Bridget Keown and Maryanne Rhett ; 3. Flags of our fathers: imperial decline, national identity, and allohistory in Marvel Comics / Lawrence Abrams and Kaleb Knoblauch ; 4. The Buckaroo of the Badlands: Carl Barks, Don Rosa, and (Re)Envisioning the West / Peter Cullen Bryan
Historical trauma. 5. Victor Charles and Marvin the ARVN: Vietnamese as enemy and ally in American war comic books / Stephen Connor ; 6. Magneto the Survivor: redemption, Cold War fears, and the "Americanization of the Holocaust" in Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men (1975-1991) / Martin Lund ; 7. "How would you like to go back through the ages
in search of yourself?": time travel comics, internationalism, and the American Century /
Mythic histories. 8. Federal Bureau of Illustration: comics depictions of J. Edgar Hoover / Max Bledstein ; 9. When Hawkman met Tailgunner Joe: how the Justice Society of America constructs the Fifties as a usable past / Matthew J. Costello ; 10. AfterShock's Rough Riders and reification of race reimagined / Christina M. Knopf ; 11. "Out there hunting monsters": Manifest Destiny, the monstrosity of the American West, and the gothic character of American history / Michael Fuchs and Stefan Rabitsch
Volume 2. Acknowledgments
History and form. 1. Beyond paper walls / Adam Fotos ; 2. A tarnished Bronze Age? Divergent comic book receptions of Homeric Greece / Chris Bishop ; 3. "The gutters of history": geopolitical pasts and imperial presents in recent graphic nonfiction / Dominic Davies ; 4. Back to the (socialist) future: history, time travel, and East German education in Mosaik von Hannes Hegen, 1958-74 / Sean Eedy ; 5. Why hair matters: cultural impact and appreciation in Viking and modern societies / Lillian Céspedes González
Historical trauma. 6. Re-presenting the past, reinventing comics: the reader/viewer as witness in Joe Sacco's The Great War / Małgorzata Olsza
7. "Monstrez-vous en Tutu": obsessional Identity and interpersonal histories in the post-traumatic bandes dessinées of Nawel Louerrad / Edward Still ; 8. Zikai Feng's Chinese cartoons during the War of Resistance against Japan / Jing Zhang ; 9. "At the Going Down of the Sun": vampires, comics, and the world wars / David Budgen
Mythic histories. 10. "Rogues, devilry, and strange wonders": re-presenting early modernity in Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602 / David Hitchcock ; 11. The world as it was/could have been? The depiction and (re)Interpretation of Medieval history in Jour J / Iain A. MacInnes ; 12. Perverse Victoriana in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Robert Hutton ; 13. Japan's Joan of Arc: deterritorializing the Maid of Orleans through manga / Simon Gough ; 14. "An All-Purpose Symbol": V for Vendetta and the History of a Floating Signifier Called Guy / Lewis Call
