Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-) #16
Title | Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-) #16 PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Simonson |
Publisher | DC |
Pages | 24 |
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Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
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Superman is brutally reminded of the limits of his powers when a case of wife-beating in his own apartment building continues despite his intervention.
Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-) #28
Title | Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-) #28 PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Simonson |
Publisher | DC |
Pages | 24 |
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Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
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Ever since his return, Superman has been itching for action and now he gets his chance. But he finds that his awesome powers have been strangely amplified.
Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-) #32
Title | Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-) #32 PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Simonson |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2013-09-11 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
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Bizarro World' part 4, continued from ACTION COMICS (1938-2011) #697. Having captured Bizarro and saved Lois, the Man of Steel must take his imperfect clone to the only place that can possibly save the deteriorating duplicate: LexCorp. Continued in SUPERMAN (1987-2006) #88.
Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 5
Title | Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 5 PDF eBook |
Author | John Byrne |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2006-11-28 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1401243568 |
The fifth collection of Superman tales from the 1980s, featuring ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #432-435, ACTION COMICS #592-593 and SUPERMAN #9-10! Superman encounters the new hero Gangbuster, faces the menace of the Joker, teams up with Mister Miracle and Big Barda, and inadvertently becomes Metropolis's greatest menace!
Re-Constructing the Man of Steel
Title | Re-Constructing the Man of Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Lund |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2016-11-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3319429604 |
In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical investigations of the past, and as such does not stand up to historical scrutiny. In place of these readings, this book offers a new understanding of the Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the mid-1930s, presenting him as an authentically Jewish American character in his own time, for good and ill. On the way to this conclusion, this book questions many popular claims about Superman, including that he is a golem, a Moses-figure, or has a Hebrew name. In place of such notions, Lund offers contextual readings of Superman as he first appeared, touching on, among other ideas, Jewish American affinities with the Roosevelt White House, the whitening effects of popular culture, Jewish gender stereotypes, and the struggles faced by Jewish Americans during the historical peak of American anti-Semitism. In this book, Lund makes a call to stem the diffusion of myth into accepted truth, stressing the importance of contextualizing the Jewish heritage of the creators of Superman. By critically taking into account historical understandings of Jewishness and the comics’ creative contexts, this book challenges reigning assumptions about Superman and other superheroes’ cultural roles, not only for the benefit of Jewish studies, but for American, Cultural, and Comics studies as a whole.
1996 Comic Book Index
Title | 1996 Comic Book Index PDF eBook |
Author | Johnny Lauck |
Publisher | |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
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The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion
Title | The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Overstreet |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2008-05-13 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 0375722815 |
Describes and lists the values of popular collectible comics and graphic novels issued from the 1950s to today, providing tips on buying, collecting, selling, grading, and caring for comics and including a section on related toys and rings.