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100 1  Fingeroth, Danny.
245 10 Disguised as Clark Kent : |bJews, comics, and the creation of the superhero / |cDanny Fingeroth ; foreword by Stan Lee.
264  1 New York : |bContinuum, |c2007.
300    183 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index.
520 1  "Jewish identity is historically about the push and pull toward and away from that very identity. As immigrants with a history of persecution, Jews came to America with their heads down but their eyes open, finding themselves presented with unprecedented freedom and opportunity." "Still, there were limits, spoken and unspoken, which often pushed Jews into fields with a hint of "second-class-ness" to them. Among these was the comic-book industry, until then minus the breakout hit that would put the medium on the map. That phenomenon would be the superhero - specifically Superman - and the flood of others that followed, including Batman and Spider-Man." "In Disguised as Clark Kent, Danny Fingeroth explores how the creators' Jewish backgrounds helped make superheroes the most familiar popular-culture icons of all, far beyond the comic books that spawned them - on TV, in movies, in electronic media - and in our very ideas about what it means to be a hero."--BOOK JACKET.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Comic books, strips, etc. |zUnited States |xHistory and criticism.
650  0 Superheroes.
650  0 Jewish cartoonists |zUnited States |vBiography.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
856 42  |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007013822.html
852 0   |bstacks |hPN6725 |i.F47 2007