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The Year Is 1953
| Fan Comic | |
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| Title: | |
| Artist: | blue_bees |
| Date(s): | December 2022 (published to AO3) |
| First Published: | |
| Medium: | webcomic |
| Genre/Style: | |
| Fandom: | Plastic Man, DC Comics |
| External Links: | https://bluef00t.neocities.org/art/comics/plasticman1953.pdf https://oliveroctavius.tumblr.com/post/703625812137672704/a-plastic-man-fancomic-about-the-fbi-in-the-1950s https://archiveofourown.org/works/43385868 |
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The Year Is 1953 (alternately titled Plastic Man 1953) is a Plasticman fancomic by blue_bees.
Background/Development/Summary
The year is 1953. Somewhere, Frederic Wertham is writing the book that will end the Golden Age of comics.
Somewhere else, J. Edgar Hoover is writing a memo that will scrub the "un-American" from the ranks of the FBI.One of these things will be the end of Eel O'Brian, otherwise known as Plastic Man—unless he reevaluates his priorities real quick. Lucky for him, if he's anything, he's flexible.
(16-page fancomic with written sections.)
Fan Responses and Reviews
A mixed-media (pencil/charcoal on paper; sections presented instead in plaintext) satiric piece about the Red Scare, the Comics Code, censorship and discrimination-as-tool-of-social-control as seen in the good ol' U.S. of A. - recently-historically, and right the heck now. It's funny as anything, isn't it?[1]
GENIUS[2]
One of my favorite fan comics of all time. Fucking amazing paneling, gorgeous art, and a killer plot that takes me right back to the end of the golden ages.The characterization is absolutely stellar and it’s set right in the world of Quality Comics, settings and all.
What a fucking amazing comic, I cannot recommend it enough.[3]
Recursive Fanworks
Links
References
- ^ AO3 bookmark by Biblioteque, dated February 2023
- ^ AO3 bookmark by AluminumFoil, dated 13 Jan 2023
- ^ AO3 Bookmark by somecrappyclone dated 20 Dec 2022