And So Begins a Startling Adventure
Rounding off the first part of the book’s argument, this chapter begins its analysis of the early Superman comics, focusing exclusively on their retellings of his origin story. These comic stories are juxtaposed with recent claims that Superman should be
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RTIN LUND
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture Series Editors Aaron David Lewis Arlington, Massachusetts, USA Eric Michael Mazur Virginia Wesleyan College Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (CRPC) invites renewed engagement between religious studies and media studies, anthropology, literary studies, art history, musicology, philosophy, and all manner of high-level systems that under gird the everyday and commercial. Specifically, as a series, CRPC looks to upset the traditional approach to such topics by delivering top-grade scholarly material in smaller, more focused, and more digestible chunks, aiming to be the wide-access niche for scholars to further pursue specific avenues of their study that might not be supported elsewhere.
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Martin Lund
Re-Constructing the Man of Steel Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection
Martin Lund CUNY Graduate Center Brooklyn, New York, USA
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture ISBN 978-3-319-42959-5 ISBN 978-3-319-42960-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42960-1
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Too many people have helped in the process that led up to this book, in ways big and small, for me to be able to name you all. This does not mean that I do not appreciate you or what you have done for me. There is one name that towers above all others in my career, one person without whom this project could not have been pulled off: Jonas O
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