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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section One Historical Considerations
- Comics Predecessors
- Men of Tomorrow
- Gladiator
- The Great Comic Book Heroes
- The Comics and the Super State
- The Superman Conceit
- The Great Women Superheroes
- Fandom and Authorship
- Section Two Theory and Genre
- Literary Formulas
- Crowds of Superheroes
- The Epic Hero and Pop Culture
- Masked Heroes
- The Revisionary Superhero Narrative
- Jack Kirby and the Marvel Aesthetic
- Navigating Infinite Earths
- A Song of the Urban Superhero
- Section Three Culture and Identity
- Wonder Woman
- Invisible Girl
- Love Will Bring You to Your Gift
- Batman, Deviance and Camp
- Color Them Black
- Comic Book Masculinity
- The Punisher as Revisionist Superhero Western
- Death-Defying Heroes
- Contributors
- Index
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section One Historical Considerations
- Comics Predecessors
- Men of Tomorrow
- Gladiator
- The Great Comic Book Heroes
- The Comics and the Super State
- The Superman Conceit
- The Great Women Superheroes
- Fandom and Authorship
- Section Two Theory and Genre
- Literary Formulas
- Crowds of Superheroes
- The Epic Hero and Pop Culture
- Masked Heroes
- The Revisionary Superhero Narrative
- Jack Kirby and the Marvel Aesthetic
- Navigating Infinite Earths
- A Song of the Urban Superhero
- Section Three Culture and Identity
- Wonder Woman
- Invisible Girl
- Love Will Bring You to Your Gift
- Batman, Deviance and Camp
- Color Them Black
- Comic Book Masculinity
- The Punisher as Revisionist Superhero Western
- Death-Defying Heroes
- Contributors
- Index