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Supergods : what masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants, and a sun god from Smallville can teach us about being human / Grant Morrison.
Morrison draws on history, art, mythology, and his own astonishing journeys through this alternate universe as a comic book writer to provide the first true chronicle of the superhero.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400069125 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780679603467 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1400069122 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0679603468 (ebook)
- Physical Description: xvii, 444 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The sun god and The dark knight -- Lightning's child -- The superwarrior and the Amazon princess -- The explosion and the extinction -- Superman on the couch -- Chemicals and lightning -- The fab four and the birth of the marvelous -- Superpop -- Infinite earths -- Shamans of Madison Avenue -- Brightest day, blackest night -- Feared and misunderstood -- Fearful symmetry -- Zenith -- The hateful dead -- Image versus substance -- King Mob : my life as a superhero -- Man of muscle mystery -- What's so funny about truth, justice, and the American way? -- Respecting authority -- Hollywood sniffs blood -- Nu marvel 9/11 -- The day evil won -- Iron men and incredibles -- Over the event horizon -- Star, legend, superhero, supergod? -- Outro: 'nuff said. |
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| Subject: | Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism. Superheroes. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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| Lansdowne Library | PN 6725 M67 2011 (Text) | 26040002979363 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
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