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| | Comics' heroes tackle serious subjects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | At Marvel Comics in the early 1960s, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created a family of bickering super beings called the Fantastic Four, who, even while saving the world for the umpteenth time, were examples of social dysfunction reflecting the fragmentation taking place in society as a whole. |
 | | "If you look at the evolution of comics in America, we've now got the first generation of writers writing them who grew up with comics consciously being written for adults," said Paul Levitz, president and publisher of Marvel's rival, DC Comics. |
 | | When cocky super archer Green Arrow's preppy young ward, Speedy, became a heroin addict, it was an unprecedented plot twist in comic books. |
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