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02732aam a2200349 i 4500 001 DC78CD16141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230927t20232023gw a b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9783832556938 020 $a 3832556931 035 $a (OCoLC)1399460788 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OHX $d ICU $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PN56.5.V5 $b B63 2023 100 1 $a Bock, Anke Marie, $e author. 245 10 $a Superevil : $b villains in Silver Age superhero comics / $c Anke Marie Bock. 246 3 $a Super evil 246 3 $a Villains in Silver Age superhero comics 264 1 $a Berlin : $b Logos Verlag Berlin, $c [2023] 300 $a 311 pages : $b color illustrations ; 24 cm 520 $a "Superevil: Villains in Silver Age Superhero Comics sheds light on the often-disregarded supervillains in the American superhero comic of the 1960s. From Loki to Killmonger - they all possess famous cinematic counterparts, yet it is their comic origin that this study examines. Not only did The Silver Age produce countless superheroes and supervillains who have conquered the screens in the last two decades, but it also created complex villains. Silver Age supervillains were, as the analyses in Superevil show, the main and only means to include political and societal criticism in a cultural product, which suffered from censorship and belittlement. Instead of focusing on the superheroes once more, Anke Marie Bock pioneers in putting the supervillain as such in the center of the attention. In addition to addressing the tendency to neglect villains in superhero-comic studies, revealing many important functions the supervillains fulfill, among them criticizing Cold War politics, racism, gender roles and the often unquestioned binary of good and evil on the examples of i.a. The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and Black Panther comics"-- $c Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305). 505 0 $a Why the World Needs Superheroes -- The Genre of the Superhero Comic -- Approaching Evil -- Stereotypical Evil During the Cold War -- US Supremacy over Evil by Mythological, Religious and Scientific Superiority -- Representations of Marginalized Groups as Evil -- The Functions of Evil in the American Superhero Comic, or: Why the World Needs Supervillains. 610 20 $a Marvel Comics Group. 650 0 $a Supervillains in comics. 650 0 $a Comic books, strips, etc. $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Good and evil. 655 7 $a Comics criticism. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517012041.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC78CD16141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search