On the Origin of Superheroes : From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 /
"Most readers think that superheroes began with Superman in 1938, but that Kryptonian rocket didn't just drop out of the sky. By the time Superman's creators were born, the superhero's most defining elements--secret identities, aliases, disguises, signature symbols, traumatic ori...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Origin story
- In the beginning
- Revolution
- A parliament of monsters
- Indians & cowboys
- Evolution
- Thou shalt not kill
- The superhero guide to love & sex
- Best of both worlds
- Epilogue: Magneto's giftshop.