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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; 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

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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