In this Book
- The Dark Night Returns: The Contemporary Resurgence of Crime Comics
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: RIT Press
- Series: Comics Studies Monograph Series
summary
Crime comic books in the 1950s caused controversy leading to their suppression and near extinction. Twenty-five years later, the dark hero, femme fatale, and bleak outlook of crime story comic books are even more striking and subversive. Terrence Wandtke traces the history of crime comics from their beginnings to the current resurgence and analyzes the cultural forces that give rise to influential works like Frank Miller’s Sin City, Brian Azzarello’s 100 Bullets, and Ed Brubaker’s Criminal.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781933360874
Related ISBN(s)
9781933360867
MARC Record
OCLC
907436853
Pages
206
Launched on MUSE
2015-04-15
Language
English
Open Access
No