Awards
- Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Reference Boty) 2005
Overview
Modern mythology leaps into the popular culture from the pages of comic books and now propels the astounding growth of the graphic novel. Aimed at the genesis, The Superhero Book is the ultimate A-to-Z compendium of everyone's favourite over-achievers in the pitched battle between good and evil. With 300 entries examining over 1,000 high-powered icons and their place in the popular firmament, this is the first comprehensive profile of superheroes across all media, following their path from comic-book stardom to radio, television, movies, and novels. It's good to be super-great. With over 150 full-colour illustrations (including dozens of classic comic covers), this book covers the best-loved and most historically significant superheroes -- mainstream and counterculture, famous and forgotten, best and worst. Each significant era of the superhero is explored -- the Golden Age (1938-1954), the Silver Age (1956-1969), the Bronze Age (1970-1979), and the Modern Age (1980-present) -- providing the reader with unique perspective of the hero over the twentieth century and beyond. Readers will delight in the mountain of trivia, never-before revealed facts and finds, and insider information, written with insight and enthusiasm by a devoted team of comic-book, film, and pop-culture experts.
Full Product Details
Author: Gina Misiroglu ,
David A. Roach
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Imprint: Visible Ink Press
Dimensions:
Width: 23.50cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 18.50cm
Weight: 1.665kg
ISBN: 9781578591541
ISBN 10: 1578591546
Pages: 725
Publication Date: 01 October 2004
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
"""Because of the universal interest in superheroes, fueled by the many successful superhero movies, TV shows, and video games, it seems there can never be english superhero reference books. Judging by what I've seen of ""The superhero book: The ultimate encyclopedia of comic-book icons and hollywood heroes, it definitely fills a much-needed niche in the growing lore of the genre and will be a welcome addition to the collection of any fan of spectacular superhero sagas. Excelsior."""
Because of the universal interest in superheroes, fueled by the many successful superhero movies, TV shows, and video games, it seems there can never be english superhero reference books. Judging by what I've seen of The superhero book: The ultimate encyclopedia of comic-book icons and hollywood heroes, it definitely fills a much-needed niche in the growing lore of the genre and will be a welcome addition to the collection of any fan of spectacular superhero sagas. Excelsior.
Author Information
"Gina Misiroglu is a fourteen-year veteran of the West Coast publishing industry, specializing in the development and editing of popular culture, reference, and women's studies. Misiroglu has edited and developed hundreds of books in her publishing career for a number of presses, including Price Stern Sloan/HP Books, New World Library, Lowell House, Visible Ink Press, Macmillan Reference USA, and Adams Media Corporation. Misiroglu is the author of Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhoods in Story, Poetry, and Song (New World Library, 1999), winner of the New York Public Library's ""Best Book for Teens"" Award, and Imagine: The Spirit of Twentieth-Century American Heroes (New World Library, 1999). She lives in Los Angeles, California."
