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The caped crusade : Batman and the rise of nerd culture / Glen Weldon.
In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.
Record details
- ISBN: 1476756694
- ISBN: 9781476756691
- Physical Description: viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Batman, nerd -- Origin and growing pains (1939-1949) -- Panic and aftermath (1948-1964) -- Same bat-time (1965-1969) -- Back to the shadows (1969-1985) -- Bat-noir (1986-1988) -- The goth of Gotham (1989-1996) -- The caped crusade (1992-2003) -- Trilogy of terror (2005-2012) -- The unified theory (2004-). |
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| Subject: | Batman (Fictitious character) > History. Batman (Fictitious character) > Social aspects. Batman (Comic strip) > History. Comic strip characters. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Coldwater Branch | 741.5973 WEL (Text) | 35401425019014 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |