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Korean War Comic Books and the Militarization of US Masculinity
- positions: asia critique
- Duke University Press
- Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 2015
- pp. 618-631
- Article
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US comic books published about the Korean War during that conflict represented the war as an opportunity for US boys to become men through bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Korean War comic book representations of Asian men and women fell into a few basic types. The messages in US war comics were constrained by the need to avoid discouraging military recruitment.