Title:
The caped crusade : Batman and the rise of nerd culture / Glen Weldon.
Author:
Weldon, Glen, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
©2016
Call Number:
PN6725 .W46 2016
Abstract:
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.
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Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN:
9781476756691
Physical Description:
viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents:
Batman, nerd -- Origin and growing pains (1939-1949) -- Panic and aftermath (1948-1964) -- Same bat-time (1965-1969) -- Back to the shadows (1969-1985) -- Bat-noir (1986-1988) -- The goth of Gotham (1989-1996) -- The caped crusade (1992-2003) -- Trilogy of terror (2005-2012) -- The unified theory (2004-).
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