This book explores how the heroes and villains of popular comic books--and the creators of these icons of our culture--reflect the American experience out of wh

This book explores how the heroes and villains of popular comic books—and the creators of these icons of our culture—reflect the American experience out of

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The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imag

Focusing especially on American comic books and graphic novels from the 1930s to the present, this massive four-volume work provides a colorful yet authoritativ