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[Perry Noid]

Was confused. Thought it was a review of the new mutants comic book series
but it's a book book without the pitchers. Thanks for pointing me to it
Mark. http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/the-social-justice-league

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> from a PACIFIC STANDARD magazine review of THE NEW MUTANTS:
>
> When DC Comics writer Gardner Fox debuted the Justice League in 1960
> in the Brave and the Bold #28, the series was an inventive and
> subversive choice for Cold War America. Amid the rise of the security
> state, McCarthyism’s domestic panic, and communist-containment
> policies abroad, the comic re-envisioned America’s saviors as a band
> of international immigrants and exiles. Most members of the Justice
> League worked for the state; yet they were often misunderstood or
> oppressed by the very organization they believed in. In “nearly every
> instance” of conflict between the JLA and official representatives of
> the law, Fawaz writes, the government was portrayed as a bumbling,
> bureaucratic dinosaur. This wasn’t the only sly anti-administration
> subtext for discerning readers. The villains were often portrayed as
> evil because they were abusing scientific talents to develop weapons
> for the military—a moral argument against the military-industrial
> complex that preceded Eisenhower’s famous speech about the associated
> economic perils.
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