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In a World of Super-Violence, Can Pacifism Pack a Punch?: Nonviolent Superheroes and their Implicati...

In a World of Super-Violence, Can Pacifism Pack a Punch?: Nonviolent Superheroes and their Implicati...

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In a World of Super-Violence, Can Pacifism Pack a Punch?: Nonviolent Superheroes and their Implications

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In a World of Super-Violence, Can Pacifism Pack a Punch?: Nonviolent Superheroes and their Implications

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Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass.), 2016-06, Vol.39 (2), p.177-192

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English

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Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Since at least 1954-the year when Congress, inspired by psychologist Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, investigated comics as a cause of juvenile delinquency, and when the industry implemented in the hearings' wake a Comics Code, nominally active until 2011, that disallowed, among much else, "[s]cenes of excessive violence"3 -the relevan...

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In a World of Super-Violence, Can Pacifism Pack a Punch?: Nonviolent Superheroes and their Implications

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1852700064

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1852700064

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1542-7331

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1542-734X

DOI

10.1111/jacc.12530

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