The evolution of the costumed avenger: the 4,000-year history of the superhero
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Avenger
The 4,000-Year History of the Superhero
Jess Nevins
Qpraeger
An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Santa Barbara, California • Denver, Colorado
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 Operating Premises 1
The Problem of, and with, Definitions 1
Raglan, Rank, and Campbell 2
21st-Century Attempts at Definition 4
A More Useful Approach 6
Heroenkonzepte 7
Gods and Epic Heroes, and What They Are Not 9
The “Superhero Genre” 10
The Two Categories of Protosuperheroes 12
Who Gets Left Out 13
Chapter 2 From 2100 BCE to 1500 CE 15
Hazy Beginnings 16
The Epic of Gilgamesh 17
The First Protosuperhero—Not Who You Think 17
Egyptian Mythology and Poems 19
Samson and the Wild Men 21
The “Heroes” of Greek Mythology 23
Nectanebo II 28
Aeneas 30
The Noble and Just Latrones 31
Alexander the Legend 33
Beowulf, the Thor-Wolf 34
Roland the Martyr 36
Contents
Medieval Heroes 39
The Cid 41
The Matter of Arthur 42
Medieval Outlaws 48
Robin Hood 49
Conclusion 51
Chapter 3 From 1500 to 1829 53
Orlando Furloso the Best Seller and Its Forerunners 54
Heroic Sorcerers and Heavenly Necromancers 56
Merlin the Secondary 56
Virgil the Necromancer 57
Maugis/Malagigi and His Heirs 58
Michael Scot 60
John Dee 61
Stage Magicians 62
Faustus 63
Gothic Ambiguities 64
Superheroines Avant la Lettre 66
The Early Female Knight 67
16th- and 17th-Century Warrior Women 68
The Faerie Queene 70
Descendants of Talos 72
Long Meg of Westminster 75
Moll Cutpurse 77
Heroic Highwaymen 78
Masked Conspirators 80
The Hero-Villain 82
The Venetian Batman 83
Martinette de Beauvais 84
The Scottish Superman 86
This Man, This Monster 87
John Melmoth 88
Conclusion 89
Chapter 4 Victorian Costumed Avengers 91
Masked Untermenschen: Threat or Menace 91
The Master Detectives 94
A Truly Dangerous Hero 97
The Superhuman Superhero 99
The Dual-Identity Costumed Vigilante 101
The Hidden Master 102
Contents
The Man of Extraordinary Capabilities
The First Series Heroes
Spring-Heeled Jack
The Man of Extraordinary Capabilities Redux
Penny Vigilantes
Dime Vigilantes
Cowboy Vigilantes
Lady Detectives
LadyJaguar
The Man in the Black Cloak
Nick Carter
John Amend-All
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Victorian Supermen
Monsters
Villains
The Gray Champion
Artificial Beings
Rosicrucians and Theosophists
Dime Novel Supermen
Psychic Heroes
Science Fiction Supermen
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Costumed Avengers, 1901-1938
The Carter Effect
Immigrants and Foreign Influences
The Lupins
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Klan
Films
Zorro
The Pulps
Westerns
Nonstandard Sources
Killer Vigilantes
Air Aces
The Fabulous Four
Comic Strips
Domino Lady
Conclusion
Contents
Chapter 7 Supermen, 1901-1938 171
Victorian Holdovers 171
Physical Culture and Eugen Sandow 172
Origin Stories 174
Mysteries 175
Yellow Perils 177
Lost Races and Utopias 179
Evolutionary Predecessors 180
Science Fiction’s Supermen 182
Occult Detectives 184
Artificial Supermen 186
The Men of 40 Faces 187
John Carter 189
Cinematic Supermen 191
The Night Wind 192
Superwomen 194
Westerns 196
Eugenics and the Backlash 198
Spawn of the Depression 201
Pulp Supermen 203
Outside the Pulps • 205
Conclusion 207
Chapter 8 Comics’ Early Years 209
The New Medium 209
Prologue to Superman 210
The Last Son of Krypton 213
Eleven Months of Silence and Echoes 215
Four Months of Chill 216
A Fantastic Seven Months 217
The Boom of 1940 222
Conclusion 232
Chapter 9 Ages upon Ages 235
The Golden Age: 1935-1949 235
The Atomic Age: 1949-1956 242
The Silver Age: 1956-1970 248
The Bronze Age: 1970-1985 257
The Modern Age: 1986-2001 264
The Metamodern Age: 2001-2015 270
Contents
Chapter 10 Television and Film 277
Epilogue 285
Appendix 289
Notes 295
Selected Bibliography 347
Index 385
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