Comics predecessors / Peter Coogan
Men of tomorrow / Gerard Jones
The great comic book heroes / Jules Feiffer
The comics and the super state / Walter Ong
The Superman conceit / Fredric Wertham
The great women superheroes / Trina Robbins
Fandom and authorship / Will Brooker
Literary formulas / John G. Cawelti
Crowds of superheroes / Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence
The epic hero and pop culture / Roger B. Rollin
Masked heroes / Richard Reynolds
The revisionary superhero narrative / Geoff Klock
Jack Kirby and the Marvel aesthetic / Charles Hatfield
Navigating infinite Earths / Karin Kukkonen
A song of the urban superhero / Scott Bukatman
Wonder Woman / Gloria Steinem
Invisible Girl / Lillian Robinson
Love will bring you to your gift / Jennifer Stuller
Batman, deviance and camp / Andy Medhurst
Color them black / Adilifu Nama
Comic book masculinity / Jeffrey Brown The punisher as revisionist superhero western / Lorrie Palmer Death-defying heroes / Henry Jenkins