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    Diana Prince Hero

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    Wonder Woman? An instant Icon when she was introduced in the DC All Star Comics Issue #8. A female superhero became very popular amongst the male readers and attracted female readers to read comic books as well. She immediately became the face for feminism and she would become the original super heroine paving the path to several other super-heroines. She is fierce, strong, and beautiful, a skilled fighter perhaps the best in the DC universe, she fights along side Superman and Batman, together…

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    Marvel Comics Stereotypes

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    DC had more classic heroes while Marvel mimicked the emotional unrest from a world where social conflict was coming to a boil (Wikipedia Contributors). In 1961, Marvel introduced many female superheroes were introduced but only as supporting roles. The…

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    Though they share a common goal, Superman and Batman have different pasts, natural powers and symbols that they represent inside the DC universe. Since the Golden Age of comics in the 1930’s, Superman and Batman have captured the imagination of comic readers. These two superheroes, one with God like powers and the other a man of keen intellect and wealth unimaginable, have fought crime in completely different fashions. They have united to fight against terrifying villains and battled each…

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    The Evolution Of Superman

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    Superman is a DC comics superhero created in 1933 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Since his first appearance in Action Comics #1, he appeared in radio serials, TV shows, movies, newspaper strips etc. It was his huge success and popularity that established the superhero genre as the center of comic book culture in the US. Superman's characteristics and traits changed more than once over the years, and those changes were explained as parallel universes. However, throughout all those changes,…

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    My inner 10-year-old (not named Ben by the way, very strange, goes by Hammerhead) just high-fived the universe for this bodacious gift from DC and IDW comics. The winged guardian of Gotham teams with those saviors from the sewers...Batman and the Turtles in an epic 6 part miniseries from writer James Tynion IV (Constantine, The Eighth Seal) and artist Freddie E. Williams II (The Flash). Ok, ok, ok...down to business. Is this comic worth it's ink and paper? Happy to say yes. It's always…

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    Marvel Research Paper

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    Marvel Worldwide Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books. Marvel Comics created countless stories, universes, and heroes. They grow in numbers and quality as Marvel grows as a company. Martin Goodman founded Marvel Comics, which was original Timely Publications, in 1939. Goodman was a pulp magazine publisher who was expanding into a new medium of comic books. The post-war comic market saw…

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    What is superhero fiction? Superhero fiction is a genre mainly originating in and most common to American comic books, though it has expanded into other media through adaptations and original works. The form is a type of speculative fiction examining the adventures of costumed crime fighters known as superheroes, who often possess superhuman powers and battle similarly powered criminals that we like to call villains. Occasionally, this type of fiction is referred to as superhuman or…

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    asking, what makes these "superheroes so appealing including the history of superheroes, how they provide people a sense of safety, embrace diversity and team work and have cool costumes. Up, Up, and Away The recent popularity of DC comics’ movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” has turned heads at the box office at a whopping $424.1 million its opening week. So what is a superhero? Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines as a fictional hero having extraordinary or superhuman…

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    Women In Refrigerators

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    called The Women Of Marvel, which is run by a group of females who work for Marvel Comics who talk about the Marvel Universe, and other feminist issues within that topic. In May of 2015, Marvel published its first all-female superhero team called A-Force. The comic series has been making its way onto store shelves. Others include Silk, Captain Marvel, Spider-Gwen, Thor, and Princess Leia. DC comics have also been praised for its newest incarnations of Batgirl, and Gotham Academy, both mostly led…

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    Batman and Superman are both characters created by DC comics. Batman and Superman were both introduced in 1939. Batman was introduced in Detective Comics #27 in 1939 and in the spring of 1940 Batman #1 was released. Superman was introduced in Action Comics #1 in 1939. Batman’s and Superman’s parents both died when they were young. Batman’s parents were killed when walking home from a theater. A man held Thomas(his dad), Martha(his mom), and Bruce Wayne at gunpoint, trying to rob them and then…

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