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🏛 Routledge 📅 2008 📖 299 pages 🌐 English 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780415991766

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Finding expression in comic books, television series and successful blockbuster films, the superhero has become part of everyday life. Exploring the superhero genre, its storytelling practices, its hero-types and its relationship with fans, this anthology fills a gap in research about the comic book superhero of the last 20 years.

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