New Member Intro

[wonderwomanchristine]

Hello! I am a doctoral student in psychology and within the past couple of years have found a passion for comic books. I enjoy looking at the psychology aspect of superheroes and their creators. I'm excited to be a part of this and hope to hear from others about what your interests are! 

[Kracalactaka]

Welcome be sure to check out CB+ also for material past 1959 and even beyond comics like old superhero radio shows and movie theater serials

http://comicbookplus.com/

[darkmark (RIP)]

You should be able to find more than a few psycho cases in them. ;-)

[erwin-k]

There's always room for a dissertation on Mad Scientists. Or, on the mental trauma of accidentally becoming a super-powered being.   

Anyway, enjoy your time here.

[Yoc]

Stardust and the other Fletcher Hanks characters would be perfect study cases.
See the Archives section for him.

-Yoc

[Reddave]

Hello! I am a doctoral student in psychology and within the past couple of years have found a passion for comic books. I enjoy looking at the psychology aspect of superheroes and their creators. I'm excited to be a part of this and hope to hear from others about what your interests are! 

Hey, fellow Newbie! Although I am a firm Marvelite (total Avengers/ X Men/ Fantastic Four nerd), I have always liked the colourful appeal of the Golden Age and psychology-wise I am definitely interested. Your namesake, Wonder Woman, was deliberately created by a psychologist as I'm sure you know and I think it was an extraordinary idea.  Odd, isn't it, that in the modern era we are arguably more widely conscious of oppression and discrimination - yet you can compare and contrast strong golden age heroines such as Black Cat; Wonder Woman; Ms Fury; Black Canary with the appalling treatment meted out to the modern Ms Marvel and the whole women in refrigerators thing?

Anyway, hope you pitch in with your views!

[Reddave]

...and just on that last topic of oppression (yep, that was a topic, keep up!), I was just Facebook chatting with an old friend about the attached Superman poster image. I always preferred Siegel and Shuster's original Superman (pre flight) who took on slum landlords and corruption. Sure, super villains are fun - but Superman was a great moral example back then.  In my view much more so than when they just tried to play on it in the 1970s and 80s without him necessarily dealing with real issues.

Just my ten cents,
Dave