Anthony Letizia

Anthony Letizia has been many things through the years, including an accountant, journalist, and playwright. From June 2014 to May 2019, he served on the board – as well as treasurer – of the ToonSeum, a nonprofit museum of the cartoon and comic arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also curated two exhibits while there: “To Boldly Go: The Graphic Art of Star Trek” (October 2016 to January 2017) and “Popology: An Exhibit of Pop Culture and Comics” (September 2017 to November 2017), as well as co-curated “Wonder Woman: Visions” (November 2017 to February 2018).

After a decades-long hiatus, Anthony Letizia completed his M.A. in History at Duquesne University in December 2024. He has used his history background to make a number of presentations in recent years on the ways that popular culture intersects with the real world. The list includes: “Did Comic Books Help Elect Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman?” poster presentation at the American Historical Association in Chicago in January 2026; “Miami Vice and the Contra War in Nicaragua” at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans in April 2025; “Superheroes Battle Pollution on the First Earth Day” poster presentation as part of the Comics Arts Conference at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2024; “DC Comics and August 1986” at the Popular Culture Association Conference in Chicago in March 2024 that explored the Ethiopian famine and Apartheid; and “Green Arrow as Social Justice Warrior” as part of the Comics Arts Conference at WonderCon in Anaheim in March 2023. He also organized/moderated a panel at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle in August 2022 entitled “A Green Arrow History of Seattle” and made a brief “Marvel Comics History of the 1960s” presentation at the virtual Popular Culture Association conference in April 2022.

In addition to writing for Remixing History, Letizia is working on a book that ties together the fictional narratives from the Marvel Comics Universe of the 1960s and the factual events of the decade, similar to the articles that serve as the backbone of Remixing History but in a longer and more detailed format.

Although still an accountant by day, at night Anthony Letizia is a strong proponent and true believer in the educational power of Geek Culture. He can be reached at anthony@remixinghistory.com.

Spidey Super Stories

Britton Payne has spoken at various pop culture conventions about how The Electric Company and Marvel teamed up in the 1970s to produce a comic book that helped kids learn to read.

New Approaches in Teaching History

In his book New Approaches in Teaching History, University of Cincinnati professor Frederic Krome explores the ways that science fiction narratives can complement the history classroom.

Wonder Woman: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

Wonder Woman investigates acts of sabotage at a training camp for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, which allowed women to serve in the military as non-combatants during World War II.

Batman Reenacts the American Revolution

As part a campaign to sell war bonds during World War II, Batman stages reenactments of key moments from the American Revolution while a group of German Nazis attempt to stop him.

Marvel’s 1776

A team of Marvel superheroes fight to prevent history from being changed in a five-issue miniseries published in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.

The Mighty Marvel Bicentennial Calendar

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a calendar is capable of telling the story of the American Revolution in twelve images, even with factual figures interacting with fictional superheroes.

Teaching Bob Dylan

In the 2024 anthology book Teaching Bob Dylan, David Shumway of Carnegie Mellon University discusses his course on the 1960s, which uses Dylan as a lens to explore the decade.

Cartoonists Against Racism

To counter rising antisemitism during the 1930s, advertising executive Richard Rothschild was hired to wage a war against all forms of bigotry, with cartoons and comic books part of his arsenal.

She-Hulk and the Thing: Disaster at Diablo Reactor

The Thing and She-Hulk prevent a nuclear disaster from erupting at Diablo Canyon in 1982, the site of a real-world nuclear power plant that thousands protested against for close to a decade.

The Marvel Age of Comics

The Marvel comic books of the 1960s often reflected real-world events, from the Cold War to the Civil Rights Movement, creating a fictional history that complimented the factual Sixties.

Now What?!

The nonprofit creates short, animated videos on key domestic issues facing the United States in order to educate the populace and help convince more people to vote in national elections.

Captain America and Patriotism: Rambo vs. Springsteen

During the 1980s, competing forms of patriotism were advocated by John Rambo and Bruce Springsteen, while a similar debate took place within the pages of Captain America comic books.
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