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Mysterious Travelers : Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity, Hardback Book

Mysterious Travelers : Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity Hardback

Part of the Great Comics Artists Series series

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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.

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