Superhero Comics

<p>A complete guide to the history form and contexts of the genre <i>Superhero Comics </i>helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. <p/> In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format the book reveals: <p/> -The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions<br>-Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism eugenics KKK vigilantism and WWII fascism to the Cold War's transformative threat of mutually assured destruction to the on-going revolutions in African American and sexual representation<br>-Key texts-from the earliest pre-Comics-Code Superman and Batman to the latest post-Code Ms. Marvel and Black Panther<br>-Approaches to visual analysis-from layout norms to narrative structure to styles of abstraction</p>