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Pop Culture and Education

Constance and Nano

As part of its efforts to attract grade school girls to careers in engineering and technology, the Society of Women Engineers collaborated on a comic book series with writer Kelly Thompson.

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: Racial Profiling

In 2016, writer Benjamin Percy tackled the subject of racial profiling in a multi-issue narrative of Green Arrow in which a floating machine with tentacles targets African Americans in Seattle.

Comic Books and the Real World

Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy

In a storyline created before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Superman is called to the Oval Office to lend a hand in promoting physical fitness to the youth of the United States.