The Superhero Reader

Index

309 Index aarn Munro, 9 abel, robert, 98 abomination (character), 141 abrams, M. H., 98 academy of comic arts and sciences, 62 Ace Comics, 15 Action Comics, 15, 53–54, 75, 100, 102, 104, 106, 114, 125, 134, 179, 182, 185 adams, neal, xvii, 101, 114, 121, 142, 201, 255, 259, 261–63, 266 adkins, Dan, 67 Adventures of Patsy, The, 10 Akira, 176 alfred the Butler, 64, 116, 239 Alice in Wonderland, 10, 56 All in Color for a Dime, 58 All Our Yesterdays: An Informal History of Science Fiction Fandom in the Forties, 83 Alley Oop, 8–9 All-Star Comics, 54, 113, 140 Alter Ego, 62 Amazing Fantasy, 114 Amazing Spider-Man, 114, 139, 197, 279 Amazing Stories, 17, 19 Amazing Transforming Superhero! Essays on the Revisions of Characters in Comic Books, The, xvi, 279–94 American Born Chinese, xiv American Flagg!, 176, 195 American Monomyth, The, 74 American Splendor, 276 Anatomy of Criticism, 74, 88, 98 anderson, Murphy, 65 andrae, Thomas, 14, 70 angel, 175 Angel/angel, 222, 230, 232, 235 ant-Man, 177 Archie, 170, 297 Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, xix Arkham Asylum/arkham asylum, 69, 118, 249 arrow, 100, 113 asimov, isaac, 168 Astro City, xvii, 170, 194 Atom, The, 63, 177 Authority, The, 133 Avengers, The (tv series), 244 Avengers/The avengers, 68, 106, 114, 134 Baby Huey, 297 Bails, Jerry, 62–63 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 188–89, 197 Bankhead, Tallulah, 245–47 Barbara Gordon, 67–69 Barker, Martin, 238, 250–51 Barks, Carl, 195 Baron Mordo, 141 Barreaux, adolphe, 12 Barrier, Michael, 114 Barthes, Roland, 70, 112, 115 Batgirl, 69, 242, 248 Batman: The Complete History, 133 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 68, 76, 116–35, 182–95, 296 Batman/Batman/Bruce Wayne, xvii, 9, 39, 48, 54, 58, 61–71, 74, 80, 84–86, 88, 90–91, 93–95, 97, 99–101, 107–15, 116–35, 140, 155, 164, 170–71, 175, 177–78, 181–84, 188–91, 194–97, 200–201, 234, 237–51, 269, 281, 291, 293, 296–300, 302 Batman and Me, 70, 115 Batman and Robin, 69 310 Index Batman Unmasked, 134 Batmania, 62 Battis, Jes, 224, 235 Batwoman, 242, 248 Baudelaire, Charles, 192 Becker, Stephen, xix Bendis, Brian Michael, 297 Benton, Mike, 14, 195 Beowulf/Beowulf, 74, 84, 89–94, 98 Bergman, Ingmar, 246 Big Bang Theory, The, 199 Billy Batson, 59, 80 Birth of a Nation, The, 82 Bizarro, 190 Black adam, 140 Black Canary, 257, 264 Black Cat, The, 135 Black Goliath, 269 Black Lightning/Black Lightning/Jefferson Pierce, 201, 262–63, 266, 268–69 Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans, 201, 267, 269–78 Black Terror/Black Terror, 36–37 Black Vulcan, 264 Black Widow, 245–46 Blackbeard, Bill, 13 Blondie, 40 Blood Syndicate, The, 270 Bloom, Clive, 134 Bloom, Harold, 75–76, 117–19, 131–35 Blue Beetle/Blue Beetle, 36–40 Bob Scully, Two-Fisted Hick Detective, 22 Bogey Man (character), 36 Bolland, Brian, 69 Books of Magic, The, 276 Bordo, Susan, 277 Bradstreet, Tim, 289 Brain Wave, 140 Brave and the Bold, The, 114 Brickner, Richard M., 39 Bridwell, F. Nelson, 63 Brooker, Will, xvi, 5, 134 Broome, John, 65–66 Brown, James, 254 Brown, Jeffrey, 201, 267 Brubaker, Ed, 297 Buck Rogers, 22 Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Buffy Summers/ Buffyverse, 13, 200, 216–17, 221–26, 229–36 Bukatman, Scott, xiii, 77 Bullet Man, 36 Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 17 Burton, Tim, 181–83 Busiek, Kurt, xvii, 170, 197–98, 263 Byrne, John, 107 Byrne, Ruth, 161, 167 Cahiers du Cinéma, 66, 85 Caillois, Roger, 188 Calendar Man, 123 Campbell, Frances Stuart, 37 Campbell, Joseph, xii, 37, 74, 229 Caniff, Milton, 30, 86–87 capp, al, 43 Captain America/captain america, 37, 80, 100–101, 107–8, 114, 134, 297 Captain America and the Crusade against Evil, xiv Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero, xvi Captain America Complex, The, 74 Captain and the Kids, The, 41 Captain Easy, 15 Captain Marvel/Captain Marvel, 9, 53, 59, 80–81, 107, 114, 140, 175, 204 Captain Midnight, 36, 108, 115 Carnage (character), 141 Carroll, Lewis, 56 Cassaday, John, xvii Castle, Terry, 182, 188–89, 197 Catman, 36 Catwoman, 116, 190, 245 Cawelti, John G., 73–74 Cerebus, 14 Certeau, Michel de, 180–81, 184, 186, 196–97 Chandler, Raymond, 118, 171 Chaykin, Howard, 171, 176, 195, 197–98 Childe Roland, 131–32 Cinderella, 36 Civil rights/human rights, 126, 135, 206, 266 Clark, Kenneth, 252...