Iron Man Comics & Propaganda

To call these works propaganda is to insist that any work with a point of view is propaganda, a word that has an unfortunate connotation and that is most often linked to governmental efforts to promote an agenda, perhaps through devious means, and perhaps not. Certainly, the Iron Man comics had a point of view and set forth the attitudes of their creator. In this sense they could be seen as propaganda. However, Lee is not the government and is only expressing his point of view in his literature just as would any other artist, and calling the books propaganda seems excessive. By this definition, any written, created, or performed work with a point of view would be identified as propaganda, and that would make the term meaningless.

The fact that the character is able to change his mind shows that his creator could do the same, and

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