In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.
In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.
"Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night, cycling through eras of dark melodrama and light comedy and back a…
The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Youth and Gotham City: Raising Criminals, Training Vigilantes, and Influencing Readers -- Chapter 2: Beyond Batman: Gender in Gotham City -- Chapter 3: The Sexualized City: Violence, Power, and Liberation -- Chapter 4: Pluralism and Identity Formation:…
"One bad day. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham's top cop, Comm…
Collects the Sunday Batman strips as they were originally published in the newspapers in the 1940s, in a book with behind-the-scenes information and rare promotional materials.
Collects the Sunday Batman strips as they were originally published in the newspapers in the 1940s, in a book with behind-the-scenes information and rare promotional materials.
Collects the Sunday Batman strips as they were originally published in the newspapers in the 1940s, in a book with behind-the-scenes information and rare promotional materials.
Collects the Sunday Batman strips as they were originally published in the newspapers in the 1940s, in a book with behind-the-scenes information and rare promotional materials.