"The Super Heroes"
1970's
At this time was a time when the Comics book industry would experiences a new revolution. Where stories would be more relevant and the birth of the anti-heroes, and deal subjects like drugs, racism and other subjects, with the edition of social commentary to superheroes and a sense of realisms the revolution had begun.
1971
During the Nixon administration, the government wanted to address the issue of illegal-drug use. So one day at marvel Stan Lee had received a letter from the government that they wanted him to talk about the negative side of illegal-drug use. Stan didn't want to preach to people, he just wanted to tell it like something that happened in a story. Stan wrote this spider-man story where Spider-man fought the Green Goblin and in a side story an inner city kid is on a drug trip and thinks he can fly and spider-man saves him. What was also going on Harry (the Green Goblin's son) swallowed a large amount of pills and nearly overdoses. When Stan went the Comic code authority to get the seal of approval the organization rejected the idea, because the code said they couldn't talk about drugs. Stan's publisher decided that they were going to run the three issue story ark without the codes seal of approval. The comics were a big hit and the code was liberalized
1975
Chris Claremont would take over as the writer of the uncanny X-men, a Stan Lee and Jack Kirby creation. Chris brought some of the old team back like Cyclops, Iceman, Jean Grey and the Angle. There would also be a few new mutants like Wolverine, Night crawler, Coleuses and Strom. The X-men represented the idea of intolerance, if you were black or gay or being picked on people could identify with the X-Men. Claremont's run of the X-Men would lead to the popularly of the anti-hero Wolverine, Wolverine is famous for his attitude and his claws. That he was the type of person to taken to the bad guys and not be afraid to use the same force.
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