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Solution Squad

Anthony Letizia -
In 2017, middle school teacher Jim McClain created a 132-page graphic novel featuring a team of superheroes who use math to solve crimes as a way to better engage students in the classroom.

TeachRock

STEAM Superheroes

Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels

Star Wars in the Classroom

Pop Culture Classroom

Spectra: The Original Laser Superhero

Star Trek’s Philosophy of Peace and Justice

Necessary Trouble Archives

The Marvel Age of Comics

The X-Men and Greenwich Village

Anthony Letizia -
During the early 1960s, Iceman and Beast from the X-Men were regular patrons of a coffeeshop in the famed New York City neighborhood, where they listened to Beat poets and quoted Bob Dylan.

The Mighty Thor and Hiroshima USA

Wyatt Wingfoot: The Fish-In Protests

The Hulk, Bruce Banner, and Robert Oppenheimer

Red Wolf and the Occupation of Alcatraz

The Incredible Hulk and the University of Wisconsin

Mary Jane Watson: Go-Go Dancer

The Fantastic Four and Apollo 11

The Avengers: The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: Journey to Appalachia

Anthony Letizia -
Two years after Senator Robert F. Kennedy embarked on a “poverty tour” of Kentucky, Green Arrow and Green Lantern made a similar journey to a small mining town called Desolation.

Green Arrow: The Native American Movement

Green Arrow: Love Canal and Toxic Waste

Green Arrow: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Green Arrow: Racial Profiling

Green Arrow: The 2016 Presidential Election

Green Arrow: The Death of John Lennon

Green Arrow: Salvadoran Sanctuary

Green Arrow: The Population Bomb

Comic Books and the Real World

Champions: Mitigating Climate Change

Anthony Letizia -
The teenage Marvel superhero team the Champions have been strong proponents of climate change mitigation, and even featured an environmental activist similar to Greta Thunberg.

The Incredible Hulk: In the Shadow of AIDS

Superman vs. the Slums

Nomad: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots

The Unstoppable Wasp and G.I.R.L.

Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy

Ms. Marvel and Voting in America

Captain America: Punching American Nazis

Batman: The Theft of the Mona Lisa

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Popular culture often serves as a mirror into the past and present through narratives that reflect the real world. Remixing History intertwines these fictional stories with their factual counterparts, creating a hybrid history and better understanding of our times in the process.

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