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<h1>Authorizing Superhero Comics</h1>
<p class="gmail-sub-title">On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre</p>
<h3 class="gmail-author">Daniel Stein</h3>
<p>306 pp. 6 x 9<br>
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<strong> Pub Date:</strong> August, 2021<br>
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<p>“<em>Authorizing Superhero Comics</em> is a truly
fascinating piece of innovative scholarship that approaches a salient
part of comics history and culture from the perspective of actor-network
theory, offering important insights into the (para)textual construction
of authorship in superhero comics and beyond.” —Jan-Noël Thon, author
of <em>Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture</em></p>
<p>“Daniel Stein has produced a meticulously
argued, well-researched, and methodologically sound study, which I
believe will resonate with anyone studying superheroes, comics, and
popular culture more generally.” —José Alaniz, author of <em>Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond</em></p>
<p><em>Authorizing Superhero Comics</em> examines the comic
book superhero as a lasting phenomenon of US popular serial
storytelling. Moving beyond linear- or creator-centered models of genre
development, Daniel Stein identifies authorization conflicts that have
driven the genre’s evolution from the late 1930s to the present. These
conflicts include paratextually mediated exchanges between officially
authorized comic book producers and alternatively authorized fans that
trouble the distinction between production and its reception;
storyworld-building processes that subsume producers and fans into a
collective rooted in a common style; parodies that ensure the genre’s
longevity by deflating criticism through self-reflexive humor; and
collecting and archiving as forms of memory management that align the
genre’s past with the demands of the present. Taking seriously the
serial agencies of the superhero comic book as a material artifact with a
particular mediality, the study analyzes letter columns, editorial
commentary, fanzines, encyclopedias, and other forms of comic book
communication as critical frameworks for understanding the evolution of
the genre—assessing rarely covered archival sources alongside some of
the most treasured figures from the superhero’s multi-decade history,
from Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman and Captain America. </p></div></div></div></div></div>
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