Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books

• Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science pp. 577 - 595
• Main Author: Banco, Lindsey Michael
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2020; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science

Banco provides analysis of visual representations of the Manhattan Project, of atomic scientists, and of nuclear knowledge in a series of comic books and graphic narratives. Focusing on factual, historical depictions of Manhattan Project physicists such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and on the science of...