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- catalog abstract ""An analysis of superhero comic books beginning with Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen drawing on the literary and psychoanalytic theory of Harold Bloom and Slavoj Žižek, How to Read Superhero Comics and Why argues for the recognition of a new age of superhero comic books. Klock builds through a discussion of Marvels, Astro City, Kingdom Come, Alan Moore's America's Best Comics and Grant Morrison's Justice League of America to argue that Planetary, The Authority and Wildcats usher in the future of the superhero narrative: a future that will be what Spiderman and the Fantastic Four were in the early 1960s, and what Superman and Batman were in the late 1930s."--Cover p. [4].".
- catalog contributor b12632549.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""An analysis of superhero comic books beginning with Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen drawing on the literary and psychoanalytic theory of Harold Bloom and Slavoj Žižek, How to Read Superhero Comics and Why argues for the recognition of a new age of superhero comic books. Klock builds through a discussion of Marvels, Astro City, Kingdom Come, Alan Moore's America's Best Comics and Grant Morrison's Justice League of America to argue that Planetary, The Authority and Wildcats usher in the future of the superhero narrative: a future that will be what Spiderman and the Fantastic Four were in the early 1960s, and what Superman and Batman were in the late 1930s."--Cover p. [4].".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.".
- catalog description "Melancholy and the infinite earths -- The bat and the watchmen: introducing the revisionary superhero narrative -- "It is with considerable difficulty...": the revisionary superhero narrative, phase two -- America's best comics: tracing the (re)visionary company -- Pumping up the volume: the revisionary superhero narrative approaches the new age -- The superhero as critic: the birth of the modern age -- Epilogue: pop comics, Harold Bloom at Harvard, and the Oedipal fallacy -- A frequently asked question: Unbreakable.".
- catalog extent "vii, 204 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "How to read superhero comics and why.".
- catalog identifier "0826414184 (hbd)".
- catalog identifier "0826414192 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "How to read superhero comics and why.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Continuum,".
- catalog relation "How to read superhero comics and why.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "741.5/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Comic books, strips, etc. United States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN6725 .K59 2002".
- catalog subject "Superheroes Comic books, strips, etc. History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Melancholy and the infinite earths -- The bat and the watchmen: introducing the revisionary superhero narrative -- "It is with considerable difficulty...": the revisionary superhero narrative, phase two -- America's best comics: tracing the (re)visionary company -- Pumping up the volume: the revisionary superhero narrative approaches the new age -- The superhero as critic: the birth of the modern age -- Epilogue: pop comics, Harold Bloom at Harvard, and the Oedipal fallacy -- A frequently asked question: Unbreakable.".
- catalog title "How to read superhero comics and why / Geoff Klock.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".