This book traces the history of crime comics from their beginnings
to the current resurgence and analyzes the cultural forces that
give rise to influential works like Frank Miller's Sin City. Crime
comic books in the 1950s caused controversy leading to their
suppression and near extinction. Twenty-five years later, the dark
hero, femme fatale, and bleak outlook of crime story comic books
are even more striking and subversive. Terrence Wandtke traces the
history of crime comics from their beginnings to the current
resurgence and analyzes the cultural forces that give rise to
influential works like Frank Miller's Sin City, Brian Azzarello's
100 Bullets, and Ed Brubaker's Criminal. The Dark Night Returns is
the third book published in the RIT Press' Comics Studies Monograph
Series. The series editor is Dr. Gary Hoppenstand, Professor of
English at Michigan State University. TERRENCE WANDTKE is a
professor at Judson University. His books include The Meaning of
Superhero Comics (McFarland) and Ed Brubaker: Conversations
(forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi). He is the
founder of the Imago Film Festival.
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