The Superhero - An American Invention
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, the comic book superhero is an American invention. Here to tell the story is WWII historian Jeffrey Johnson, the author of Super-History: Comic Book Superheroes and American Society.
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