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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.

STEAM Superheroes

Solution Squad

Teaching with the Beatles

Constance and Nano

Necessary Trouble Archives

Drawn to Home

The Marvel Age of Comics

Spider-Man and Project Mercury

The amazing Spider-Man helps a crippled space capsule return safely to Earth while the real-world Mercury Seven astronauts wait for the opportunity to travel into the vast unknown.

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

Captain America: Punching American Nazis

While Captain America was punching Adolf Hitler on the cover of his self-named comic book, American gangsters were doing the same on the streets of New York City in the late 1930s.