Manga: Superheroes and super-villains
Titan Books Ltd Marvel's Deadpool The First 30 Years
Book SynopsisA celebration of 30 years Marvel’s most anarchic anti-hero, Deadpool with profiles of his greatest allies, his deadliest enemies, and his most anarchic adventures!This deluxe book explores the comic book history of Deadpool, looking in-depth at his greatest adventures, strangest foes, and his unlikeliest allies. Lavishly illustrated with stunning art, this tribute to the most outspoken Marvel character also includes interviews with the real life geniuses behind his ongoing adventures. For all fans of X-Men and Marvel comics characters.
£17.99
Titan Books Ltd Marvel's Spider-Man: The First 60 Years
Book SynopsisExplore 60 years of Marvel’s best-loved Super Hero, The Amazing Spider-Man, with this deluxe, fully-illustrated guide to his adventures.This deluxe book explores the comic book history of Spider-Man, from his origins in the early 1960s to an in-depth guide to his greatest adventures. The book also features the real-life stories behind the creation of his greatest foes including Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, and Venom and profiles of the creators who have made the character a breakthrough multimedia icon. With stunning art from the Marvel archives, this history of Marvel’s most well-known hero is a must-have reference guide to all fans of comic book heroes.
£21.24
Titan Books Ltd Marvel's Hulk: The First 60 Years
Book SynopsisA celebration of 60 rage-filled years of Marvel’s immortal, incredible, and savage hero, the Hulk!This deluxe book explores the comic book history of the Hulk, looking in-depth at his greatest battles, deadliest enemies, and his unlikeliest allies. Lavishly illustrated with stunning art, this tribute to one of Marvel’s most iconic characters also includes profiles of the the talented creators behind his ongoing adventures.
£19.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Marvel's Mutants: The X-Men Comics of Chris
Book SynopsisIn 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn't used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the bestseller in a revived comics market. Unusually in the comics world, one man, Chris Claremont wrote the comic over seventeen years, from 1975 to 1991, developing new characters such as Wolverine and Storm, and taking themes from Freudian psychology, Christian temptation narratives, Existentialist philosophy and the language of sub-cultural identity. Marvel's Mutants is the first book to be devoted to the aesthetics of these comics that laid the foundation for the worldwide X-Men franchise we know today. Miles Booy explores Claremont's recurrent themes, the evolution of his reputation as an auteur within a collaborative medium, the superhero genre and the input of the artists with whom Claremont worked. Also covered are the successful spin-off projects, which Claremont wrote: solo Wolverine mini-series and whole new teams of mutant superheroes.Trade Review`Miles Booy is an expert critic and his much-welcomed account of Chris Claremont's tenure on Marvel's X-Men will be essential reading for comic fans and historians alike. Booy succeeds in analysing the narratives and politics of comics with admirable scholarly detachment while never losing sight of the fun nature of his subject. This book is likely to be the definitive survey of Claremont's contribution to the Marvel universe.' - James Chapman, author British Comics: A Cultural History, 'An excellent and timely book about the unsung genius of Chris Claremont, the most under-appreciated comics writer, who nevertheless made a vast contribution to the super hero genre. Booy gets deep into the work, and why Claremont is so influential.' - Paul Cornell, award-winning comics writer of Wolverine, X-Men & more, 'Marvel's Mutants provides the sort of literary analysis of the X-Men that we’ve been waiting for. This is not more of the same, endless discussions of the X-Men's politics. Rather, Miles Booy excavates and illuminates the subtle but often forgotten themes and tropes - joy and hunger, civilization and savagery, humanity and machinery - that truly gripped the attention of long-time writer Chris Claremont. This is a compelling, novel, and necessary reconsideration of the foundational period of the X-Men.’ - Neil Shyminsky,Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter One: Claremont's Characters Chapter Two: History and Futures Past Chapter Three: Bringing It All Back Home Chapter Four: Existential X-Men: The New Mutants Chapter Five: Harder They Come... Appendix: Sales Figures of `The Uncanny X-Men' during the Claremont Era Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
Lexington Books The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book
Book SynopsisThe Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship between ‘superhero comics’ and ‘superhero films’, the comics roots of superhero media, matters of canon and hybridity, and issues of recycling and stereotyping in superhero films and media texts. Secondly, it considers how these intersecting textual and cultural preoccupations are intrinsic to the process of remaking and re-adapting superheroes, and brings attention to multiple ways of materializing these iconic figures in our contemporary context. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionLorna Piatti-FarnellPart I: Across Platforms and Formats1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel MultiverseCory Barker 2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video GamesCarl Wilson 4.“I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,”: Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended UniverseJoan Ormrod 5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero CinemaJames C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel’s Scarlet WitchForrest Johnson 7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU’s Captain AmericaLorna Piatti-Farnell 8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica JonesMatthew Thompson 9.Super-heroine Objectification: The Sexualization of Black Widow Across Comic and Film AdaptationsAngelique Nairn 10.An ‘Extra-Ordinary’ Adaptation: Exploring Time and Trauma in The Umbrella AcademyCarmel Cedro and Blair Speakman 11.Battle of the Black Superheroes: Or, Why Blade Will Never Live in WakandaSimon Bacon Part III: Transnational Dialogues and Evolving Political Contexts12.From “Bat-Manga” to “Attack on Avengers”: Transnational Superhero Adaptations Between Japan and AmericaAnne Lee 13.Kamen Rider, Masked and Unmasked: Tales of Transcultural TransformationSophia Staite 14.Spider-Man, The Panopticon, and The Normalization of Mass SurveillanceDemi Schänzel 15.Adapting Judge Dredd: Civic Guardian or Hyperviolent Cop?Justin Matthews 16.All the President’s Supermen: Political Appropriations of Superhero Rhetoric Michael Soares IndexAbout the Contributors
£87.30
Lexington Books The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book
Book SynopsisThe Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship between ‘superhero comics’ and ‘superhero films’, the comics roots of superhero media, matters of canon and hybridity, and issues of recycling and stereotyping in superhero films and media texts. Secondly, it considers how these intersecting textual and cultural preoccupations are intrinsic to the process of remaking and re-adapting superheroes, and brings attention to multiple ways of materializing these iconic figures in our contemporary context. Trade ReviewBlitzed with cascades of superhumans that zip like quicksilver betwixt and between print, podcast, videogame, as well as big-tent and smartphone silverscreens, virtuoso comics scholar Lorna Piatti-Farnell, and her league of extraordinary cultural critics, invite us to take a critical pause. From incisive analyses of transmedial recreations of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Blade, Captain America, Spidey, and Jessica Jones as well as the Umbrella Academy and Power Ranger teams, we’re finally handed the roadmap we’ve been longing for: insight, understanding—knowledge. The Superhero Multiverse wakes us to long and deep histories of class-, race-, and gender-based societal traumas. It shouts from rooftops the emancipatory power of superhero narrative performativities! -- Frederick Luis Aldama, University of Texas at AustinThis collection of 16 essays “follows in the footsteps of existing scholarship in the field ... and focus[es] on the textual and cultural impact of the superhero icon on transmedia production, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making” (p. 2). The volume considers an array of topics in an accessible, intelligent manner. This includes analysis of the dramatic podcast Wolverine: The Long Night, engagements with streaming programs such as The Umbrella Academy and Jessica Jones, and considerations of Batman across cultures. Focused almost exclusively on contemporary iterations of the superhero, often beyond the confines of the printed page, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of popular culture. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty and general readers. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionLorna Piatti-FarnellPart I: Across Platforms and Formats1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel MultiverseCory Barker 2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video GamesCarl Wilson 4.“I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,”: Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended UniverseJoan Ormrod 5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero CinemaJames C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel’s Scarlet WitchForrest Johnson 7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU’s Captain AmericaLorna Piatti-Farnell 8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica JonesMatthew Thompson 9.Super-heroine Objectification: The Sexualization of Black Widow Across Comic and Film AdaptationsAngelique Nairn 10.An ‘Extra-Ordinary’ Adaptation: Exploring Time and Trauma in The Umbrella AcademyCarmel Cedro and Blair Speakman 11.Battle of the Black Superheroes: Or, Why Blade Will Never Live in WakandaSimon Bacon Part III: Transnational Dialogues and Evolving Political Contexts12.From “Bat-Manga” to “Attack on Avengers”: Transnational Superhero Adaptations Between Japan and AmericaAnne Lee 13.Kamen Rider, Masked and Unmasked: Tales of Transcultural TransformationSophia Staite 14.Spider-Man, The Panopticon, and The Normalization of Mass SurveillanceDemi Schänzel 15.Adapting Judge Dredd: Civic Guardian or Hyperviolent Cop?Justin Matthews 16.All the President’s Supermen: Political Appropriations of Superhero Rhetoric Michael Soares IndexAbout the Contributors
£31.50
Lulu.com A Collection of Short Stories
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Panini Publishing Ltd Black Panther Omnibus
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£18.69
Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Platinum Deluxe Edition: The Definitive
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Panini Publishing Ltd Dark Ages
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Panini Publishing Ltd Ms. Marvel: Beyond The Limit
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£11.69
Panini Publishing Ltd Defenders Vol. 1: There Are No Rules
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£11.69
Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Ms. Marvel: No Normal
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Legion Of Monsters
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Black Panther: Who Is The Black
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Panini Publishing Ltd Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 1 - Team Spirit
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Panini Publishing Ltd Skrull Kill Krew Omnibus
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Panini Publishing Ltd Ironheart Omnibus
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Platinum Deluxe Edition: The Definitive
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Panini Publishing Ltd Spider-verse
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Panini Publishing Ltd Captain Carter: Woman Out Of Time
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Panini Publishing Ltd Fantastic Four: Reckoning War
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Deluxe Edition: Marvel Super Heroes -
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Panini Publishing Ltd King In Black: Namor
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Panini Publishing Ltd Spider-man 60 Amazing Years
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Panini Publishing Ltd Guardians Of The Galaxy Omnibus Vol. 1
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Panini Publishing Ltd What If? Vol.2: Secret Invasion
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Panini Publishing Ltd Amazing Spider-man: Kraven's Last Hunt
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Panini Publishing Ltd Doomwar
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Villains: Kang
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Panini Publishing Ltd Zombies Assemble Zomnibus Edition
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Panini Publishing Ltd Ant-man: Ant-iversary
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Panini Publishing Ltd Captain America: Symbol Of Truth Vol.1 - Homeland
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Zombies Omnibus Vol. 2
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Deluxe Edition: Secret Empire
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Miles Morales:
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Panini Publishing Ltd Carnage: The Court Of Crimson Omnibus
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Guardians Of The
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Panini Publishing Ltd Midnight Suns
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Panini Publishing Ltd Edge Of Spider-verse
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Panini Publishing Ltd Planet Hulk: Worldbreaker
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Panini Publishing Ltd Daredevil: The Man Without Fear
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Panini Publishing Ltd Daredevil: Parts Of A Hole
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Ant-man: World Hive
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Secret Invasion: Meet The Skrulls
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Non-stop Spider-man: Big Brain
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Rocket Raccoon: A Chasing Tale
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Wolverine: Patch
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