Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre by Peter Coogan, Denny O'Neil

Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre

Peter Coogan, Denny O'Neil

290 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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This title presents 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.

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