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Black superheroes, Milestone comics, and their fans
Title
Black superheroes, Milestone comics, and their fans / Jeffrey A. Brown.
ISBN
1578062810
1578062829
9781578062829
9781578062812
9781578062829
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2001]
Copyright Notice Date
©2001
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 232 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Tells how success came to Milestone Comics in the 1990s. Focuses on the African American heroes in a town called Dakota. Represents an alternative model of black heroism.
Variant and related titles
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2023
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
Contents
Introduction: "New heroes"
A milestone development
Comic book fandom
The readers
Reading race and genre
Reading comic book masculinity
Drawing conclusions.
Subjects
Also listed under
American Council of Learned Societies.
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