The British Superhero

Author:   Chris Murray
Publisher:   University Press of Mississippi
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9781496820266


Pages:   318
Publication Date:   30 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Chris Murray
Publisher:   University Press of Mississippi
Imprint:   University Press of Mississippi
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9781496820266


ISBN 10:   1496820266
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   30 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Murray writes in an engaging, fluid manner and from a clearly evident base of knowledge and experience. . . . The British Superhero is an easy book to recommend for those interested in gaining a somewhat different perspective on superhero comic history. - Bill Capossere, Fantasy Literature; Chris Murray's The British Superhero does a superb job of chronicling the surprisingly compelling history of comics in England and defining the industry's origins in nineteenth-century pop culture (boys' weeklies, penny dreadfuls) and in the sci-fi/fantasy 'protosuperheroes' of 1930s pulp-fiction protagonists: the Scarlet Bat, the Black Whip, the Flaming Avenger, and Karga the Clutcher. - Jarret Keene, Popular Culture Review


Murray writes in an engaging, fluid manner and from a clearly evident base of knowledge and experience. . . . The British Superhero is an easy book to recommend for those interested in gaining a somewhat different perspective on superhero comic history. --Bill Capossere, Fantasy Literature


"Murray writes in an engaging, fluid manner and from a clearly evident base of knowledge and experience. . . . The British Superhero is an easy book to recommend for those interested in gaining a somewhat different perspective on superhero comic history.""""- Bill Capossere, Fantasy Literature; """"Chris Murray’s The British Superhero does a superb job of chronicling the surprisingly compelling history of comics in England and defining the industry’s origins in nineteenth-century pop culture (boys’ weeklies, penny dreadfuls) and in the sci-fi/fantasy ‘protosuperheroes’ of 1930s pulp-fiction protagonists: the Scarlet Bat, the Black Whip, the Flaming Avenger, and Karga the Clutcher.""""- Jarret Keene, Popular Culture Review"


Chris Murray's The British Superhero does a superb job of chronicling the surprisingly compelling history of comics in England and defining the industry's origins in nineteenth-century pop culture (boys' weeklies, penny dreadfuls) and in the sci-fi/fantasy 'protosuperheroes' of 1930s pulp-fiction protagonists: the Scarlet Bat, the Black Whip, the Flaming Avenger, and Karga the Clutcher.--Jarret Keene Popular Culture Review Murray writes in an engaging, fluid manner and from a clearly evident base of knowledge and experience. . . . The British Superhero is an easy book to recommend for those interested in gaining a somewhat different perspective on superhero comic history.--Bill Capossere Fantasy Literature


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Chris Murray is professor of comics studies at the University of Dundee and director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies. Murray is author of Champions of the Oppressed: Superhero Comics, Popular Culture, and Propaganda in America During World War II. He is also editor of UniVerse Comics, coeditor of Studies in Comics (Intellect), and co-organizer of the International Comics and Graphic Novel conference.

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