Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre
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Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre

Peter Coogan
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An entertaining and exhaustive history, tracing the superhero's roots in mythology, science fiction, and pulps, which follows the genre's development to its current renaissance in film, literature, and graphic novels.
Genres: NonfictionSuperheroesHistoryCriticismLiterary CriticismGraphic Novels
290 Pages

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