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Comics captured America's growing ambivalence about the Vietnam War

  • Written by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
imageA Panel from the Marvel Comics series 'The 'Nam.'Marvel Comics

In America’s imagination, the Vietnam War is not so much celebrated as it is assiduously contemplated. This inward-looking approach is reflected in films like “The Deer Hunter” and “Apocalypse Now,” best-selling novels and popular memoirs that dwell on the...

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