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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

Green Arrow: Salvadoran Sanctuary

During the early 1980s, Oliver Queen becomes part of the real-world Sanctuary Movement when political refugees from El Salvador are threatened with deportation by the U.S. government.

Comic Books and the Real World

A Captain America History of the United States

In 1976, comic book legend Jack Kirby sent Captain America traveling through time in a brief history of the United States that reads like a cross between Howard Zinn and Jill Lepore.