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Pop Culture and Education

Solution Squad

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.

Red Dead’s History

Pop Culture Classroom

Good Trouble Comics

Hamilton Education Program

Wonder Women of History

Necessary Trouble Archives

Civics for All Comics Group

The Marvel Age of Comics

Mary Jane Watson: Go-Go Dancer

The self-proclaimed party girl and friend of Spider-Man alter ego Peter Parker dressed in the latest fashions during the 1960s and even briefly got a job as a go-go dancer in a local nightclub.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Dakota Access Pipeline

The Green Arrow: Rebirth comic book series included a two-issue story arc based on real world protests at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation against the construction of an oil pipeline.

Comic Books and the Real World

Nomad: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Marvel superhero Jack Monroe traveled across the country as Nomad in the early 1990s and found himself in Los Angeles on the night that real-world riots erupted in the City of Angels.