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Necessary Trouble Archives

Inspired by the words of civil rights icon John Lewis, school counselor Mick Rabin created teacher guides for various historical graphic novels that include “call to action” video interviews.

The Marvel Age of Comics

The Hulk, Bruce Banner, and Robert Oppenheimer

Both Bruce Banner of the fictional Marvel Comics Universe and real-world physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer were suspected and investigated of being Soviet spies during the 1950s and 1960s.

Green Arrow and His Times

The Transformation of a Kennedy and a Queen

In 1969, the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow began his transformation from Batman rip-off to social justice advocate, a conversion that mirrored that of the real world’s Robert F. Kennedy.

Comic Books and the Real World

Champions: This is Not a Drill

In a 2018, a high school shooting occurred in the Marvel Comics Universe just seven months after the real-world shooting in Parkland, Florida, that launched the #NeverAgain movement.