By John Kenneth Muir

ISBN-10: 0786437553

ISBN-13: 9780786437559

It’s a poultry! It’s a airplane! It’s an entire advisor to over 50 years of superheroes on reveal! This elevated and up-to-date version of the 2004 award-winning encyclopedia covers very important advancements within the renowned style; provides new exhibits corresponding to Heroes and Zoom; contains the most recent motion pictures that includes icons like Superman, Spiderman and Batman; and covers much more varieties of superheroes.
every one access features a particular historical past, forged and credit, episode and picture descriptions, serious commentaries, and information on arch-villains, contraptions, comic-book origins and great powers, whereas putting each one construction into its historic context. Appendices checklist universal superhero conventions and clichés; incarnations; memorable advert strains; and the easiest, worst, and such a lot influential productions from 1951 to 2008.

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