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

[Mike Rhode]

Ok, we've got a reviewer for it, thank you.

Mike

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 3:32 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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