Stan Lee Revolution: Marvel’s superheroes as an anticipation of the Dark Age antiheroes

Autores/as

  • Marco Favaro "Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg" e "Università degli Studi di Verona"

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/dialogo.v0i42.5788

Palabras clave:

Antiheroes, Dark Age, Silver Age, mask, monster

Resumen

The 1980s: The Superhero genre experiments the most significant transformation since the creation of Superman in 1939. A new age of superheroes begins, in which the funny characters for children become darker, violent, brutal, more and more realistic, disenchanted and adult. In Supergods Grant Morrison will call it Dark Age, when the antihero takes the superhero’s place. The Dark Age is considered the biggest revolution in superheroes comics – and yet it is possible to see many warning signs during the Silver Age: a man – The Man – had already started to revolutionize the superheroes world: Stan Lee. Stan created dozens of characters: his superheroes are more complex and human than ever before. They are anticipating the Dark Age, twenty years before it. Thanks to some of the most iconic creations of The Man, this article will show the characteristic of these characters who anticipate the Dark Age’s revolution.

Biografía del autor/a

Marco Favaro, "Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg" e "Università degli Studi di Verona"

Marco Favaro is a PhD Student at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. He works at his project “The hero in 20th and 21st centuries comic and graphic novel” in cooperation with the Università degli Studi di Verona. His project is focused on the philosophical and cultural aspects of the superhero.

He studied philosophy at the University Roma “Tor Vergata” where he obtained his bachelor’s degree with a thesis about F. Nietzsche’s Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, and he got his master’s degree at the Freie Universität Berlin. He wrote his thesis on J.P. Sartre’s L'Être et le néant. He also studied for two semesters at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg.

He presented his papers in different conferences like the 7th Euroacademia International Conference, the 1st International Popular Culture Conference at the University of Seville, and the Materialities of Comics Symposium at the Nordic Summer University of Aarhus.

He speaks fluently German, English and Italian.

He currently lives in Berlin.

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Publicado

2019-12-03

Número

Núm. 42 (2019)

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