[Comicsstudiessociety] Daniel Stein's Authorizing Superhero Comics (Ohio State, 2021) - Book for review from IJOCA, USA only

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Authorizing Superhero Comics

On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
Daniel Stein

306 pp. 6 x 9
28 illustrations
* Pub Date:* August, 2021

*Subjects:* Comics Studies
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*Series:* Studies in Comics and Cartoons
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“*Authorizing Superhero Comics* 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 *Transmedial Narratology and
Contemporary Media Culture*

“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 *Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and
Beyond*

*Authorizing Superhero Comics* 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.
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