GLORIA STEINEM is an internationally renowned feminist, journalist, and political commentator. She cofounded Ms. magazine in 1971 and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993. Her books include Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), Marilyn: Norma Jean (1986), and Moving beyond Words (i993).
JENNIFER STULLER is a professional writer and critic, specializing in gender and sexuality in popular culture. She is the author of Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology (2010).
FREDRIC WERTHAM (1895–1981) was a German-American psychiatrist who wrote for both scientific journals and the popular press. He authored several widely reviewed books, including The Brain as an Organ (1934), The Circle of Guilt (1956), A Sign for Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence (1968), and The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communication (1973). His best-known book was, of course, Seduction of the Innocent (1954).
PHILIP WYLIE (1902–1971) was a best-selling midcentury author whose books included Gladiator (1930), When Worlds Collide (1933), A Generation of Vipers (1942), and An Essay on Morals (1947). He was a prolific novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and essayist.
Editors’ Bios
CHARLES HATFIELD is an associate professor of English at California State University, Northridge. He specializes in word and image studies, comics and graphic novels, children’s literature and culture, popular culture, and the literature of the fantastic. He has published widely on various aspects of comics and cartoons, for such journals as Image TexT, English Language Notes, the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Transatlantica, and the Comics Journal. He is the author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature (2005) and Hand of Fire: The Narrative Art of Jack Kirby (2011). He is currently working on a study of the graphic novelist Eddie Campbell.
JEET HEER is writing a doctoral thesis on the cultural politics of Little Orphan Annie at York University in Toronto. He is the coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (2004) and A Comics Studies Reader (2009). With Chris Ware and Chris Oliveros, he is editing a series of volumes reprinting Frank King’s Gasoline Alley, four volumes of which have been published by Drawn and Quarterly. He is also the editor of Clare Brigg’s Oh Skin-nay and is writing the introductions to a multivolume series reprinting George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. His essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Literary Review of Canada, the Boston Globe, Slate.com, and numerous other publications.
KENT WORCESTER is a professor of political science at Marymount Manhattan College. With Jeet Heer, he is the coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (2004) and A Comics Studies Reader (2009). He is also the author of C.L.R. James: A Political Biography (1996), and a longtime contributor to the Comics Journal.
INDEX
Aarn Munro, 9
Abel, Robert, 98
Abomination (character), 141
Abrams, M. H., 98
Academy of Comic Arts and Sciences, 62
Ace Comics, 15
Action Comics, 15, 53–54, 75, 100, 102, 104, 106, 114, 125, 134, 179, 182, 185
Adams, Neal, xvii, 101, 114, 121, 142, 201, 255, 259, 261–63, 266
Adkins, Dan, 67
Adventures of Patsy, The, 10
Akira, 176
Alfred the Butler, 64, 116, 239
Alice in Wonderland, 10, 56
All in Color for a Dime, 58
All Our Yesterdays: An Informal History of Science Fiction Fandom in the Forties, 83
Alley Oop, 8–9
All-Star Comics, 54, 113, 140
Alter Ego, 62
Amazing Fantasy, 114
Amazing Spider-Man, 114, 139, 197, 279
Amazing Stories, 17, 19
Amazing Transforming Superhero! Essays on the Revisions of Characters in Comic Books, The, xvi, 279–94
American Born Chinese, xiv
American Flagg!, 176, 195
American Monomyth, The, 74
American Splendor, 276
Anatomy of Criticism, 74, 88, 98
Anderson, Murphy, 65
Andrae, Thomas, 14, 70
Angel, 175
Angel/Angel, 222, 230, 232, 235
Ant-Man, 177
Archie, 170, 297
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, xix
Arkham Asylum/Arkham Asylum, 69, 118, 249
Arrow, 100, 113
Asimov, Isaac, 168
Astro City, xvii, 170, 194
Atom, The, 63, 177
Authority, The, 133
Avengers, The (tv series), 244
Avengers/The Avengers, 68, 106, 114, 134
Baby Huey, 297
Bails, Jerry, 62–63
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 188–89, 197
Bankhead, Tallulah, 245–47
Barbara Gordon, 67–69
Barker, Martin, 238, 250–51
Barks, Carl, 195
Baron Mordo, 141
Barreaux, Adolphe, 12
Barrier, Michael, 114
Barthes, Roland, 70, 112, 115
Batgirl, 69, 242, 248
Batman: The Complete History, 133
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 68, 76, 116–35, 182–95, 296
Batman/Batman/Bruce Wayne, xvii, 9, 39, 48, 54, 58, 61–71, 74, 80, 84–86, 88, 90–91, 93–95, 97, 99–101, 107–15, 116–35, 140, 155, 164, 170–71, 175, 177–78, 181–84, 188–91, 194–97, 200–201, 234, 237–51, 269, 281, 291, 293, 296–300, 302
Batman and Me, 70, 115
Batman and Robin, 69
Batman Unmasked, 134
Batmania, 62
Battis, Jes, 224, 235
Batwoman, 242, 248
Baudelaire, Charles, 192
Becker, Stephen, xix
Bendis, Brian Michael, 297
Benton, Mike, 14, 195
Beowulf/Beowulf, 74, 84, 89–94, 98
Bergman, Ingmar, 246
Big Bang Theory, The, 199
Billy Batson, 59, 80
Birth of a Nation, The, 82
Bizarro, 190
Black Adam, 140
Black Canary, 257, 264
Black Cat, The, 135
Black Goliath, 269
Black Lightning/Black Lightning/Jefferson Pierce, 201, 262–63, 266, 268–69
Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans, 201, 267, 269–78
Black Terror/Black Terror, 36–37
Black Vulcan, 264
Black Widow, 245–46
Blackbeard, Bill, 13
Blondie, 40
Blood Syndicate, The, 270
Bloom, Clive, 134
Bloom, Harold, 75–76, 117–19, 131–35
Blue Beetle/Blue Beetle, 36–40
Bob Scully, Two-Fisted Hick Detective, 22
Bogey Man (character), 36
Bolland, Brian, 69
Books of Magic, The, 276
Bordo, Susan, 277
Bradstreet, Tim, 289
Brain Wave, 140
Brave and the Bold, The, 114
Brickner, Richard M., 39
Bridwell, F. Nelson, 63
Brooker, Will, xvi, 5, 134
Broome, John, 65–66
Brown, James, 254
Brown, Jeffrey, 201, 267
Brubaker, Ed, 297
Buck Rogers, 22
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Buffy Summers/Buffyverse, 13, 200, 216–17, 221–26, 229–36
Bukatman, Scott, xiii, 77
Bullet Man, 36
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 17
Burton, Tim, 181–83
Busiek, Kurt, xvii, 170, 197–98, 263
Byrne, John, 107
Byrne, Ruth, 161, 167
Cahiers du Cinéma, 66, 85
Caillois, Roger, 188
Calendar Man, 123
Campbell, Frances Stuart, 37
Campbell, Joseph, xii, 37, 74, 229
Caniff, Milton, 30, 86–87
Capp, Al, 43
Captain Am
erica/Captain America, 37, 80, 100–101, 107–8, 114, 134, 297
Captain America and the Crusade against Evil, xiv
Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero, xvi
Captain America Complex, The, 74
Captain and the Kids, The, 41
Captain Easy, 15
Captain Marvel/Captain Marvel, 9, 53, 59, 80–81, 107, 114, 140, 175, 204
Captain Midnight, 36, 108, 115
Carnage (character), 141
Carroll, Lewis, 56
Cassaday, John, xvii
Castle, Terry, 182, 188–89, 197
Catman, 36
Catwoman, 116, 190, 245
Cawelti, John G., 73–74
Cerebus, 14
Certeau, Michel de, 180–81, 184, 186, 196–97
Chandler, Raymond, 118, 171
Chaykin, Howard, 171, 176, 195, 197–98
Childe Roland, 131–32
Cinderella, 36
Civil rights/human rights, 126, 135, 206, 266
Clark, Kenneth, 252–53
Classics Illustrated, 297, 302
Clayface, 123
Clock, The, 11
Coast City, 183
Cold War, xvi, xx, 130, 137, 140, 149–50, 212
Cole, Jack, 175, 195–96
College English, 73, 84
Comic Art, 61
Comic Book Heroes, The, 61, 70
Comic Reader, The, 62
Comic Strip Century: Celebrating 100 Years of an Art Form, The, 13
Comicollector, The, 62
Comics: An Anatomy of a Mass Medium, 15
Comics Code/Comics Code Authority, 100–101, 128, 137, 149–50, 241, 253
Comics Journal, The, 113–14
Comics Magazine, The, 10
Comics of the Golden Age: The Illustrated History, 14
Comics Studies Reader, A, xviii, xix, 196
Comix: A History of Comic Books in America, xix, 59
Commissioner James Gordon, 116, 121, 130, 132, 135, 245
Connie, 56
Consolidated Publishing Company, 22
Contemporary Comic Book Superhero, The, xvi
Continuity, 68–69, 76, 138–39, 144, 152–53, 155, 157, 160, 198–99, 296–97
Coogan, Peter, 3–4
Cooper, Gary, 93
Corbusier, Le, 180–81, 196
Costello, Matthew J., xvi
Crime Comics, 46–52, 100–101
Crisis on Infinite Earths, 156–57, 161–63, 165, 296
Crow, The/The Crow, 291, 293
Crypt of Terror, 114
Cyborg (character), 264
Cyclops (character), 264
Daily Planet/Daily Star, 103, 179
Daniels, Les, xix, 14, 59, 133, 195–96, 236, 250
Daredevil/Daredevil, 118, 175, 190, 196–97, 281
Dark Angel, 200, 219, 226–27, 234
Dark Knight Rises, The, 70
Dark Knights: The New Comics in Context, 134
Darkseid, 151
Darrow, Geoff, 185–86
Davis, Guy, xvii
DC Comics/DC universe, xiii, 5, 12, 53, 61–71, 101–2, 107, 127, 130, 134, 139, 150–52, 156–57, 161–62, 167, 194, 196, 255–56, 262, 264, 267, 298, 300–301
De Haven, Tom, 138
Deadman, 190
Death in the Family, A, 248
Detective Ace King, 22
Detective Comics, 53, 64–71, 113, 240–41
Detective Dan, 22
Devitt, Amy, 153
Diaz, Junot, 254
Dick Tracy, 22, 40, 181
Dillon, Steve, 289, 292
Dini, Paul, 197
Dirty Harry, 74, 80
Disney Corporation, xiii
Ditko, Steve, 63, 141, 183, 197
Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes, xvi
Doc Savage, 21–22, 108, 115
Doctor Doom, 109, 112, 140–41, 211, 215
Doctor Occult, 10–11
Doctor Octopus, 140–41
Doctor Strange, 141, 184, 190
Donald Duck, 297
Donaldson, E. Talbot, 90
Donenfeld, Harry, 12, 53, 107
Dooley, Dennis, 114
Douglas, Mary, xiii
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 188
Dozier, William, 61
Dr. Kildare, 143
Duneier, Mitchell, 276–77
Dyer, Richard, 241, 250–51
Earhart, Amelia, 57
Eastwood, Clint, 74, 126, 279
Eble, Kenneth E., 90
E.C. (Entertaining Comics), 100–101, 114
Eco, Umberto, 119, 137–39, 162, 296, 302–4
Eisner, Will, 4, 195
Elder, Will, xvii
Ella Cinders, 41
Ellis, Havelock, 16
Ellis, Warren, xvii, 156, 163–64, 185, 197
Elongated Man, 65–66, 190
Engle, Gary, 114
Ennis, Garth, 279–81, 286, 289–90
Eternals, The, 137
Everson, William K., 282
Faerie Queene, The, 84–90, 93–98
Famous Monsters of Filmland, 300
Fanon, Frantz, 253
Fantastic Four/Fantastic Four, 101, 109, 114–15, 139–49, 175–76, 184, 190, 200, 211–13
Fantom of the Fair, The, 178
Fascism/fascist/fascistic, xv, 76, 107, 125, 127, 129–30, 133, 135, 171
Fawcett Comics, 53, 107, 140
Feiffer, Jules, xvi, xix, 4, 59, 83, 98, 114, 189, 195, 197
Feminism/feminist, xxi, 200, 203–10, 211–15, 216–36
Fenin, George N., 282, 286, 289
Fielding, Henry, 17, 188
Fine, Jerry, 21
Finger, Bill, 63, 109–10, 115, 177
Finnley Wren, 17
Firefly/Serenity, 222, 235
First International Science Film Convention, 83
Flash/Flash/Barry Allen/Jay Garrick/Wally West, 9, 53, 65, 80–83, 101, 114, 156, 162–63, 167–68, 175, 298–99
Fleming, Ian, 79, 85, 91
Folklore, 41–42, 117, 128, 163
Ford, John, 280, 286, 288, 291
Foster, Hal, 31
Fourth World, 137, 151–52
Fox, Gardner, 62–63, 65
Fox Features, 107
Frankenstein, 112
French, Philip, 281, 284, 288, 290
Freud, Sigmund/Freudian, 87, 124–25
Friedman, Thomas, xix
Frightful Four, The, 139
Fritzsche, Peter, 176
Frye, Northrop, 74, 84, 88–90, 98
Fuchs, Wolfgang, 15
Funnies: An American Idiom, The, 98
Funny Pages, 11, 113
Gabrielle (Xena), 216–19, 221–22, 224, 228
Gaiman, Neil, 137, 198
Gaines, Max, 54
Gaines, William, 101
Galactus, 144–48
Gandhi, 100
Gartland, Mike, 146–47
Gasoline Alley, 40, 195
Geek, The, 190
Gender, xv–xvi, xviii, 36, 54, 121, 201, 230, 232, 236, 276–77
Generation of Vipers, A, xi
George, Stefan, 38
Gernsback, Hugo, 18
Giant Man, 177
Gibbons, Dave, xvii, 195, 197
Gilgamesh, 13
Giunta, John, 65
Gladiator, 4, 13, 16–22, 23–29, 149
Glyn, Elinor, 16
Godfather, The, 69, 280, 288
Godwin, Frank, 56
Golden Age, The, 197
Goodman, Martin, 148
Gornick, Vivian, 175, 196
Gotham, 65, 68, 91, 94, 109–10, 118, 123, 125, 129–30, 133, 135, 163–64, 170, 177, 181–83, 194, 247, 252
Goulart, Ron, 10, 15
Gould, Chester, 181
Graff, Mel, 15
Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics, xvi, 69
Gray Seal, 11
Great Comic Book Heroes, The, xix, 4, 30–33, 59, 83,
98, 114, 197
Great Depression, 53, 75, 108
Great Women Superheroes, The, 213
Green Arrow, The/Oliver Queen, xvii, 101, 130, 190, 201, 255–58, 263–64, 266, 267
Green Goblin, 140
Green Hornet, 108, 115, 197, 204
Green Lama, 36
Green Lantern/Green Lantern/Hal Jordan/John Stewart/Guy Gardner, xvii, 62, 80, 101, 107, 114, 127, 175, 196, 201, 255–59, 263–68, 298–99
Green Lantern Co-Starring Green Arrow, xvii, 21, 201, 255–58, 263, 266–67
Greene, Sid, 64, 66
Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 41
Groth, Gary, 113
Gruenwald, Mark, 153
Gumps, The, 40
Gunning, Tom, 182, 197
Gunsmoke, 91, 95
Haggard, H. Rider, 79
Hammett, Dashiell, 118
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, xvi, 136–54
Hank Pym, 264
Happy Hooligan, 40
Harbinger (character), 165
Hardware (character), 271
Hardwire, 271
Harmon, Jim, 58, 98
Harrigan, Pat, 139
Harris, Jack C., 67
Hatfield, Charles, xvi, xix
Haunt of Fear, 114
Haunt of Fears, A, 238
Hawkgirl, 264
Hawkman/Hawkman, 53, 62, 80, 107, 175, 190
Hearst, William Randolph, 173, 184, 185
Hellblazer, 101
Hensleigh, Jonathan, 201, 279
Hercules, 36, 83, 102, 230
Hergé, 195
Herrmann, Bernard, 66
Himes, Chester, 266
Hine, Lewis, 179
Hitler, Adolf, 18, 35, 38, 47
Hlusko, Dana, 219
Hobbes, Thomas, 127, 134
Hoffman, Dustin, 247
Holland, Norman, 89–90, 98
Hollander, Anne, 190–91, 197
Hollywood, 20, 100, 121, 237, 244, 248, 251, 255, 279–94
Homer, 13
Hood, Raymond, 179
hooks, bell, 218, 222–23, 227, 233, 235–36, 276–77
Horatio Alger, 35
Horror Comics, xii, 10, 100–101, 114, 250
How to Read Superhero Comics and Why, 75, 116–35
Hugo Danner, 17–19, 23–29
Hugo Hercules, 7–8
Human Bomb, 190
Human Torch/Johnny Storm, 36, 53, 107, 190, 211–15
Humor Publishing Company, 22
Hush, 164
Iceman, 175
Icon/Icon/Augustus Freeman IV, 271, 274–76
Image Comics, 201, 274
Incredible Hulk, The/Hulk, 101, 114, 141, 150, 176, 190, 230, 300
Infantino, Carmine, 63–66
Inhumans, 144, 148
Inness, Sherrie A., 222, 235
Invisible Girl/Invisible Woman/Sue Storm, 200, 211–15, 264
Invisibles, The, xvii
Iron Man, 106, 141
It’s a Bird, xvii
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