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The Superhero as Society’s Mirror, From World War II to Ira

Michael E. Uslan is a lifelong comic-book fan, but “crusader” might be more accurate. For years, Mr. Uslan, a film producer (“Batman Begins,” among others), has collected comics and original art, written books about the industry and produced movies about his muscled and macabre childhood heroes.

So it is of no little excitement to him that part of his collection will be included in a bona fide art exhibition that opens Saturday: “Reflecting Culture: The Evolution of American Comic Book Superheroes,” at the Montclair Art Museum.

“Since I was a kid, I’ve been fighting to get comic books recognized as a legitimate American art form, as indigenous as jazz,” Mr. Uslan, 56, said in an interview. “After all these years, that recognition is finally happening.”
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