[Comicsstudiessociety] Available for review in IJOCA worldwide - Superheroes! The History of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon from Ant-Man to Zorro

[Mike Rhode]

We can get print (US) or digital (worldwide) for this.

I don't think this is an academic book, and the reviewer should keep that
in mind when reviewing it please. Accuracy, readability, etc would count as
much in a book such as this. What I don't want is a hatchet job because
it's not scholarly enough.

Let me know directly if you're interested, and why. The publisher is
already in touch w/ me (altho if you want to review it for someone else,
use the blue button)

Mike
mrhode at gmail.com


*Superheroes! *The History of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon from Ant-Man to Zorro

*By Brian Solomon*

Applause

Paperback • May 2023 • $26.95
Request a Review Copy <ejeffers at rowman.com>

*Description*
Superheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in
tights who fight for what’s right and the comic book phenomenon that
conquered the world.


>From their origins in stories created by barely grown men during an era of
global war and printed on cheap paper for consumption by children,
superheroes have grown into a popular culture whirlwind that has attracted
millions of fans and crossed over into every form of media. Encompassing
early coming books, indie outliers, and the mammoth fictional universes
managed by DC and Marvel, Superheroes! chronicles the rise of a distinctly
American invention, the modern-day evolution of the myths and legends of
old.


Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Captain
America, X-Men, the Justice League and the Avengers—they all represent our
greatest hopes, and sometimes our darkest fantasies. Pop culture expert
Brian Solomon tells a story that goes from the Golden, Silver and Bronze
Ages of comic book history right up to the Modern Age of
multimillion-dollar Hollywood movies, and beyond. Perhaps no fictional
genre has endured and blossomed over the past eighty years the way
superheroes have. Learn all about the creators who have brought them to
life: artists like Jack Kirby and Jim Lee, writers like Stan Lee and Alan
Moore, actors like Christopher Reeve and Robert Downey Jr., and directors
like Tim Burton and Joss Whedon. They’re all here, in all their
high-flying, eye-zapping, goon-punching glory. Up, up and away!


*About the Author*

Brian Solomon is pop culture and film writer and English teacher with a
master’s specialization in Shakespeare. He lives in Connecticut, with his
wife and two children.

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