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Pop Culture and Education

Comics @ San Diego State University

After having amassed an impressive collection of comic books, graphic novels, and historical artifacts, SDSU is developing a groundbreaking program on comic books and social justice.

Solution Squad

Teaching with the Beatles

Pop Culture Classroom

Star Wars in the Classroom

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: 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

Superman and the Securities Exchange Act

In April 1939, Superman is given a crash course on why regulation of the stock market was necessary when he uncovers a stock swindle that wipes out the life’s savings of investors.