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Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have...

Part biography, part history, part artistic commentary, this volume looks at several major figures in the field of animation and discusses how thei...

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the multitude of non-Archie teen humor comic books, including girls and boys such as Patsy Walker...

For more than 60 years, Captain America served as an iconic figure in popular culture, and one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters. He represente...

In 1931, the Chicago Tribune introduced the public to an exciting new comic strip destined to become a classic: Dick Tracy. Tracy's creator, Cheste...

Millions of Americans know and love Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Blondie and Dagwood, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner, Garfield, Cathy, Beetle Bailey and other...

In October 1931, Dick Tracy made his debut on the American newspaper pages. Through extensive research and interviews with Chester Gould (the creat...

The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spirituali...

The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives o...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born late in the nineteenth century, but it was not until after his death in 1937 that he became a worldwide icon of ...

Comics and the punk movement are powerfully and inextricably linked. Each has a do-it-yourself ethos and a rebellious spirit to defy authority that...

This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con international, the largest annual celebration of...

North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s. A founding member of...

Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with ev...

One of the first edited collections devoted exclusively to digital comics, Perspectives on Digital Comics demonstrates the varied ways one can read...

Breaking box office records around the globe, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has achieved an unparalleled level of success and gripped the ima...

While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity makes his character easily comp...

Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous run of published comic book adv...

This collection analyzes the many ways in which comic book and film superheroes have been revised or rewritten in response to changes in real-world...

For decades, Marvel Comics' superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar grossin...

For military cartoonists the absurdity of war inspires a laugh-or-cry response and provides an endless source of un-funny amusement. Cartoons by hu...

A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon's television and film work, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Doctor Horribl...

As properties of DC comics continue to sprout over the years, narratives that were once kept sacrosanct now spill over into one another, synergizin...

Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still ...

I've been a comic book fan since childhood. The child became a man and the fan became a comic book retailer. I wanted more out of life and joined t...

Horror comics were among the first comic books published--ghastly tales that soon developed an avid young audience, along with a bad reputation. Pa...

A collection of essays examining comic books and graphic novels. The essays place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology...

Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presagin...

Comic books and superhero stories mirror essential societal values and beliefs. We can be Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Black Panther...

Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse vic...