- Introduction
- Fan interaction and letters
- history of the letter column
- current examples (sex criminals, saga, online)
- letter columns in Stan Lee's Marvel
- letter columns in the Amazing Spider-Man
- Data
- Overview and description: scope and formats
- Methodology
- Topic Modeling
- TEI and XPath/XQuery
- Other text analysis
- Findings
- Conclusion
Close Readings of responses to narrative events, creative team changes, etc.
- Social issues:
- Drug Use portrayed in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May–July 1971). Published without Comics Code Authority seal. (Shawn)
- Social issues of the Vietnam War and Civil rights in the late 60s and early 70s (Shawn)
- Creator changes: Transition from artists Ditko (#38) to Romita (#39) and other creative team changes (John)
- Major narrative events: Death of Gwen Stacy / Green Goblin (#Issues 121-122) and Captain Stacy (#88-92) (Jenn)
For timelines of creative teams or other reference
1963-1995 ASM Creative Teams spreadsheet
Voyant Visualizations
Raw Data - word trends
Cleaned data - word trends
