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Superevil : villains in Silver Age superhero comics
- Title
- Superevil : villains in Silver Age superhero comics / Anke Marie Bock.
- Author
- Bock, Anke Marie
- Publication
- Berlin : Logos Verlag Berlin, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Superevil: Villains in Silver Age Superhero Comics sheds light on the often-disregarded supervillains in the American superhero comic of the 1960s. From Loki to Killmonger - they all possess famous cinematic counterparts, yet it is their comic origin that this study examines. Not only did The Silver Age produce countless superheroes and supervillains who have conquered the screens in the last two decades, but it also created complex villains. Silver Age supervillains were, as the analyses in Superevil show, the main and only means to include political and societal criticism in a cultural product, which suffered from censorship and belittlement. Instead of focusing on the superheroes once more, Anke Marie Bock pioneers in putting the supervillain as such in the center of the attention. In addition to addressing the tendency to neglect villains in superhero-comic studies, revealing many important functions the supervillains fulfill, among them criticizing Cold War politics, racism, gender roles and the often unquestioned binary of good and evil on the examples of i.a. The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and Black Panther comics"--
- Alternative Title
- Super evil
- Villains in Silver Age superhero comics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Comics criticism.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305).
- Contents
- Why the World Needs Superheroes -- The Genre of the Superhero Comic -- Approaching Evil -- Stereotypical Evil During the Cold War -- US Supremacy over Evil by Mythological, Religious and Scientific Superiority -- Representations of Marginalized Groups as Evil -- The Functions of Evil in the American Superhero Comic, or: Why the World Needs Supervillains.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-792
- ISBN
- 3832556931
- 9783832556938
- OCLC
- 1399460788
- Author
- Bock, Anke Marie, author.
- Title
- Superevil : villains in Silver Age superhero comics / Anke Marie Bock.
- Publisher
- Berlin : Logos Verlag Berlin, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305).
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-792