{"product_id":"9781496830531-mysterious-travelers-steve-ditko-and-the-search-for-a-new-liberal-identity","title":"Kruse Zack - Mysterious Travelers Steve Ditko And The Search For A New Liberal Identity - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Steve Ditko (1927 - 2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider - Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange Ditko made an indelible mark on American popular culture. Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity resets the conversation about his heady and powerful work. Always inward facing Ditko's narratives employed superhero and supernatural fantasy in the service of self - examination and with characters like the Question Mr. A and Static Ditko turned ordinary superhero comics into philosophic treatises. Many of Ditko's philosophy - driven comics show a clear debt to ideas found in Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Unfortunately readers often reduce Ditko's work to a mouthpiece for Rand's vision. Mysterious Travelers unsettles this notion. In this book Zack Kruse argues that Ditko's philosophy draws on a complicated network of ideas that is best understood as mystic liberalism. Although Ditko is not the originator of mystic liberalism his comics provide a unique window into how such an ideology operates in popular media. Examining selections of Ditko's output from 1953 to 1986, Kruse demonstrates how Ditko's comics provide insight into a unique strand of American thought that has had a lasting impact.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Mysterious Travelers Steve Ditko And The Search For A New Liberal Identity\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Kruse Zack\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: University Press Of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781496830531\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 304 Pages, 42 Black \u0026amp; White Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/1\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Great Comics Artists Series\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Political Ideologies","brand":"Kruse Zack","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49617600545073,"sku":"IN-G-9781496830531","price":125.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781496830531.jpg?v=1724481371","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781496830531-mysterious-travelers-steve-ditko-and-the-search-for-a-new-liberal-identity","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}