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Death, Disability, and the Superhero - The Silver Age and Beyond (Paperback)
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Death, Disability, and the Superhero - The Silver Age and Beyond (Paperback)
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The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC
and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling
insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the
humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics
studies--Jose Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary
understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the
genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine,
quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben
Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol.
Alaniz traces how the superhero became increasingly vulnerable,
ill, and mortal in this era. He then proceeds to a reinterpretation
of characters and series--some familiar (Superman), some obscure
(She-Thing). These genre changes reflected a wider awareness of
related body issues in the postwar United States as represented by
hospice, death with dignity, and disability rights movements. The
persistent highlighting of the body's ""imperfection"" comes to
forge a predominant aspect of the superheroic self. Such moves,
originally part of the Silver Age strategy to stimulate sympathy,
enhance psychological depth, and raise the dramatic stakes,
developed further in such later series as The Human Fly,
Strikeforce: Morituri, and the landmark graphic novel The Death of
Captain Marvel, all examined in this volume. Death and disability,
presumed routinely absent or denied in the superhero genre, emerge
to form a core theme and defining function of the Silver Age and
beyond.
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