Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre
Peter Coogan
290 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 193226518X
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Language: English
Publish: July 6, 2006
CriticismGraphic NovelsHistoryLiterary CriticismNonfictionSuperheroes
An entertaining and exhaustive history, tracing the superhero’s roots in mythology, science fiction, and pulps, which follows the genre’s development to its current renaissance in film, literature, and graphic novels.