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The caped crusade : Batman and the rise of nerd culture / Glen Weldon.
Van Pelt Library PN6728.B38 W45 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weldon, Glen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Batman (Fictitious character)--History.
- Batman.
- Batman (Fictitious character)--Social aspects.
- Batman (Fictitious character).
- Batman (Comic strip)--History.
- Batman (Comic strip).
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Origin and Growing Pains (1939-1949) 11
- 2 Panic and Aftermath (1948-1964) 45
- 3 Same Bat-Time... (1965-1969) 71
- 4 Back to the Shadows (1969-1985) 102
- 5 Bat-Noir (1986-1988) 129
- 6 The Goth of Gotham (1989-1996) 151
- 7 The Caped Crusade (1992-2003) 189
- 8 Trilogy of Terror (2005-2012) 229
- 9 The Unified Theory (2004-) 263.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1476756694
- 9781476756691
- OCLC:
- 928480968
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