![]() ![]() ![]() Making use of a critical framework that discusses white masculinity, nostalgia, and the " falling " man, and the conceptual work of scholars such as Sally Robinson, Michael Kimmel, Elizabeth Anker, and Hamilton Carroll, this article argues that Cooke's comic recenters the white male adventurer/hero not only as a product of nostalgia but also as a post-9/11 response to the idea of the " falling man. The article explores Darwyn Cooke's 2004 comic DC: The New Frontier as a retrospective history for DC's comic book characters of the 1950s though this history takes into account certain problematic aspects of 1950s American cul-ture-in particular the problem of racism and fear of the minoritized other-the comic does not in any way produce a critique of normative American masculinity. ![]()
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