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Informationen zum Autor Mark Cotta Vaz is a New York Times best-selling author. His dozens of books include Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong; The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting, coauthored with Craig Barron; and, most recently, Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II, coauthored with John H. Hill. Klappentext Since the dawn of the pulp hero in the 1930s, publishers and authors have fought over the privilege of making money off of comics, and the authors and artists usually have lost. Vaz reveals just how precarious life was for the legends of the industry. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--and their heirs--spent 70 years battling lawyers to regain rights to Superman. Superman. Zusammenfassung A detailed look at the evolution of superhero comics from cheap pulp products to a billion-dollar film and publishing industry, and the artists' battles for their intellectual property and financial freedom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Comic Book BabylonChapter 1: In the BeginningChapter 2: World of TomorrowChapter 3: More Super Than TarzanChapter 4: Shadow RealmChapter 5: Superman versus Wonder ManChapter 6: The First GenerationChapter 7: Superman, Inc.Chapter 8: Patents and PatriotsChapter 9: Up, Up And Awa-a-y!Chapter 10: Battle of the CenturyChapter 11: The Adventures of SuperboyChapter 12: The TrialChapter 13: ProgenitorsChapter 14: Judgment DayChapter 15: Crackdown and CrashChapter 16: Resurrection and RenewalChapter 17: Copyright WarsChapter 18: Masters of InventionChapter 19: Evolutionary ImperativeChapter 20: Superman and Captain America on TrialChapter 21: The King and the ManChapter 22: LegacyAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
