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Pop Culture and Education

Pop Culture Classroom

From 2010 to 2025, the Denver-based non-profit found new ways to use pop culture as an education tool, from its Storytelling Through Comics curriculum to Colorful History comics.

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: Toxic Revenge

The Emerald Archer investigates a series of strange murders tied to a chemical company and housing community that shares similarities with toxic contamination in Afton, North Carolina.

Comic Books and the Real World

Ms. Marvel and Voting in America

Writer G. Willow Wilson explored the reasons why Americans don’t vote in a Ms. Marvel comic book published in November 2016 in which the superhero tries to increase turnout in Jersey City.