Foreword: Planetary superheroes as collective daydream / Frederick Luis Aldama
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Cormac McGarry
Introduction: beyond men of steel / Angela Ndalianis
Chapter 1: All new, all different, or no normal? Marvel Comics and superhero diversity / Naja Later
Chapter 2: The heart of a hero: disability and humanity in the origin stories of Marvel Studios' superheroes / Alexandra Ostrowski Schilling
Chapter 3: Monstrosity, mutation, and the world without us / Octavia Cade
Chapter 4: Midnight's children and the "Fortress of Solitude" as superhero origin stories / Julian Novitz
Chapter 5: African American viewers watching "Black Panther: the power of representation" / Sheena C. Howard
Introduction: Beyond comic books / Ian Gordon
Chapter 6: Animating Sub-Mariner and Aquaman: generational taste and the moral panic of the 1968 television season / Djoymi Baker
Chapter 7: The "toy biz" of superhero action figures / Jason Bainbridge
Chapter 8: From comic books to courtroom: unmasking the intellectual property behind the superhero / Mitchell Adams
Chapter 9: Capes, tights, and motherships: superheroes and new transmedia star systems / Cormac McGarry
Chapter 10: Super fans or toxic madmen?: fantasy, reality, and marginalized identities in subversive "DIY superhero" indie films / Jack Teiwes
Introduction: beyond the United States
Chapter 11: We need another hero: the incompatibility of superheroes and Australia / Liam Burke
Chapter 12: Without seeing the dawn: monstrous (super) heroes and Philippine myths in Mervin Malonzo's "Tabi Po" / Maria Lorena M. Santos
Chapter 13: Is there a Colombian national superhero?: how Columbian superheroes help define ethnicity and race in a multicultural society / Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Hernan David Espinosa-Medina
Chapter 14: Where does "Black Panther's" music come from? Authorship, "The Other," and the musical representation of Africa in Hollywood / Dan Golding
Chapter 15: The Phantom in Aborginal Australia: educational comics, national identity, and indigeneity / Aaron Humphrey
About the contributors
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