Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising
history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain
did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that
there were a great many in Britain and that they were often used as
a way to comment on the relationship between Britain and America.
Sometimes they emulated the style of American comics, but they also
frequently became sites of resistance to perceived American
political and cultural hegemony, drawing upon satire and parody as
a means of critique. Murray illustrates that the superhero genre is
a blend of several influences, and that in British comics these
influences were quite different from those in America, resulting in
some contrasting approaches to the figure of the superhero. He
identifies the origins of the superhero and supervillain in
nineteenth-century popular culture such as the penny dreadfuls and
boys' weeklies and in science fiction writing of the 1920s and
1930s. He traces the emergence of British superheroes in the 1940s,
the advent of ""fake"" American comics, and the reformatting of
reprinted material. Murray then chronicles the British Invasion of
the 1980s and the pivotal roles in American superhero comics and
film production held by British artists today. This book will
challenge views about British superheroes and the comics creators
who fashioned them. Murray brings to light a gallery of such comics
heroes as the Amazing Mr X, Powerman, Streamline, Captain Zenith,
Electroman, Mr Apollo, Masterman, Captain Universe, Marvelman,
Kelly's Eye, Steel Claw, the Purple Hood, Captain Britain,
Supercats, Bananaman, Paradax, Jack Staff, and SuperBob. He reminds
us of the significance of many such creators and artists as Len
Fullerton, Jock McCail, Jack Glass, Denis Gifford, Bob Monkhouse,
Dennis M. Reader, Mick Anglo, Brendan McCarthy, Alan Moore, Grant
Morrison, Dave Gibbons, and Mark Millar.
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