![]() ![]() ![]() His books never shirked from describing the primordial conflicts over race and class that were the very foundations of history. ![]() Still, the success of Feiffer’s book inspired countless imitators, which robbed the artifacts of the past of their historical context.ĭespite his role in sparking the nostalgia boom, Doctorow was in fact an anti-nostalgist in a nostalgic period. The text of Feiffer’s book indulged in no good-old-days falsifications: It was clear-eyed in linking superheroes to the trauma of the Depression and World War II. In the early 1960s, as editor at The Dial Press, he commissioned the publication of Jules Feiffer’s The Comic Book Heroes (1965), the first hardcover reprinting of such 1930s and 1940s caped crusaders as Sueprman, Batman, and The Spirit. Doctorow actually had a role to play in the rise of the nostalgia industry. ![]()
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