Batman/Superman Vol. 1: Cross World

Batman/Superman Vol. 1: Cross World
Author: Greg Pak
Publisher: DC Comics
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1401252079

The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel are close friends in the modern day-but the two weren't always such close allies. Discover how two of the World's Finest Super Heroes met for the first time in the New 52, and the mysterious adventure that takes them to a whole new world-the world of Earth-2! The heroes of the main DC Universe meet their Earth-2 counterparts for the first time!Collects BATMAN #1-4 and JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.1: DARKSEID.

Batman/Superman (2013-): Featuring Doomsday #3.1

Batman/Superman (2013-): Featuring Doomsday #3.1
Author: Greg Pak
Publisher: DC
Total Pages: 24
Release:
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Long before Superman fought the unstoppable monster known as Doomsday, the beast's reputation for death and destruction haunted The Man of Steel's home world of Krypton.

Batman/Superman Vol. 1: Who Are the Secret Six?

Batman/Superman Vol. 1: Who Are the Secret Six?
Author: Joshua Williamson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781779505675

Batman teams up with the Man of Steel to track down and help those who have been infected by a ravenous, mutated Joker virus. Just one problem: they don't know who they are. A virus is spreading, and it's not just after innocent people, but some of our most powerful heroes as well. The biggest question isn't why or how, but who? The Batman Who Laughs was one of the premier villains crawling his way from the depths of the Dark Multiverse and wreaking havoc on the DC Universe. Now he has been infecting some of the biggest heroes across the world with a mutated version of the Joker virus that is coursing through him. Cue the team-up of two of the greatest superheroes in history: Batman and Superman. They decide to work together to find out who is infected and hopefully cure them before it's too late.

Batman/Superman Vol. 5: Truth Hurts

Batman/Superman Vol. 5: Truth Hurts
Author: Greg Pak
Publisher: DC Comics
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1401271731

THESE ARE NOT THE WORLD’S FINEST... Batman and Superman-separately, they’re two of the greatest heroes the world has ever seen. Together, they’re an incredible team...and the greatest of friends. But Batman and Superman have never teamed up like this before. This is a Superman who’s lost most of his powers and had his identity revealed to the entire world. Someone is coordinating a series of attacks against him that have brought him to the brink of destruction, and he needs the world’s greatest detective to help him put the clues together. But this Batman isn’t Bruce Wayne. Jim Gordon now protects Gotham as the robot-suited Batman, and he has no reason to trust Superman...especially when his presence in Gotham seems to have brought on a war with a race of super-powered subterranean beings! They may not be the Batman and Superman who have done amazing things together in the past. But if they can’t learn to work together now, there may no longer be a Gotham City to protect! Spinning off of the events of BATMAN VOL. 8: SUPER HEAVY and SUPERMAN VOL. 1: TRUTH, acclaimed writer Greg Pak (ACTION COMICS) and artists Ardian Syaf (GREEN LANTERN) and Cliff Richards (LOBO) chronicle the first meeting between two very changed heroes, with guest appearances by Batgirl, Aquaman, Red Hood and more! Collects BATMAN/SUPERMAN #21-27.

Batman/Superman Vol. 4: Siege

Batman/Superman Vol. 4: Siege
Author: Greg Pak
Publisher: DC Comics
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1401263062

Who is Superman’s Joker? Writer Greg Pak (ACTION COMICS) and artist Ardian Syaf (BATGIRL) add a deadly new name to Superman’s Rogues Gallery-one that will test Superman’s strength and Batman’s mind equally!It’s the Man of Steel’s worst nightmare: an obsessed villain who knows all of Superman’s secrets and is willing to kill all of his allies in order to destroy his true target.It falls to Batman to track down this murderous madman-but with no clues left behind and no leads to follow, will this killer outwit the World’s Greatest Detective?Collects BATMAN/SUPERMAN #16-20, BATMAN/SUPERMAN ANNUAL #1 and BATMAN/SUPERMAN: FUTURES END #1!

Superman & Batman Generations 2

Superman & Batman Generations 2
Author: John Byrne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2003
Genre: Batman (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781840237115

From author and artist John Byrne comes another perspective on the development of both Superman and Batman that begins in 1942 and progresses right through to 2019.

Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels
Author: Michael Pawuk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1113
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles—some of which are very popular and well-known to the enthusiastic readers of books in this genre. How do you determine which graphic novels to purchase, and which to recommend to teen and adult readers? This updated guide is intended to help you start, update, or maintain a graphic novel collection and advise readers about the genre. Containing mostly new information as compared to the previous edition, the book covers iconic super-hero comics and other classic and contemporary crime fighter-based comics; action and adventure comics, including prehistoric, heroic, explorer, and Far East adventure as well as Western adventure; science fiction titles that encompass space opera/fantasy, aliens, post-apocalyptic themes, and comics with storylines revolving around computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. There are also chapters dedicated to fantasy titles; horror titles, such as comics about vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, and the occult; crime and mystery titles regarding detectives, police officers, junior sleuths, and true crime; comics on contemporary life, covering romance, coming-of-age stories, sports, and social and political issues; humorous titles; and various nonfiction graphic novels.

Fantastic Transmedia

Fantastic Transmedia
Author: C. Harvey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137306041

Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences.

Adapting Superman

Adapting Superman
Author: John Darowski
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-05-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476642397

Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television, comic strip, radio, novels, video games, and even a musical. The rapid adaptation of the Man of Steel occurred before the character and storyworld were fully developed on the comic book page, allowing the adaptations an unprecedented level of freedom and adaptability. The essays in this collection provide specific insight into the practice of adapting Superman from comic books to other media and cultural contexts through a variety of methods, including social, economic, and political contexts. Authors touch on subjects such as the different international receptions to the characters, the evolution of both Clark Kent's character and Superman's powers, the importance of the radio, how the adaptations interact with issues such as racism and Cold War paranoia, and the role of fan fiction in the franchise. By applying a wide range of critical approaches to adaption and Superman, this collection offers new insights into our popular entertainment and our cultural history.

Copyright Vigilantes

Copyright Vigilantes
Author: Ezra Claverie
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2024-06-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1496851315

Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero's unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation as a symptom of the films’ mode of production. Since the 1930s, the dominant American comics publishers have treated the creations of artists and writers as work for hire, such that stories and characters become company property. Thus, publishers avoided sharing the profits both from magazine sales and from licensing characters into other media. For decades, creators have challenged this regime, demanding either shares of profits or outright ownership of their creations. Now that the duopoly rents, licenses, and adapts superheroes for increasingly expensive franchises, and for growing international audiences, any challenge to intellectual property relations threatens a production regime worth billions of dollars. Duopoly movies, therefore, present any attempt to break the superhero’s monopoly on their powers as the scheme of terrorists, mad scientists, or space Nazis—assuaging studio anxieties and revealing the fears of those who benefit most from the real-world ownership of superheroes. Weaving together legal analysis, Marxist political economy, and close readings of movies, Copyright Vigilantes explains the preoccupations of Hollywood’s leading genre.