Small-Screen Supers

Anna F. Peppard is the project manager of Sequential Scholars. Her anthology Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero won the Best Edited Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society.

Dru Jeffries is a lecturer in film and cultural studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of Comic Book Film Style: Cinema at 24 Panels per Second and the editor of #WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age.

• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Part I. Adaptation, Audiences, and Evolving Platforms
  • 1. The Many Challenges of the Super Friends: Iterative Cultural Production and the All-Star Superhero Team (Mark Minett and Bradley Schauer)
  • 2. Marvel Anime: Convergent Divergence Through Continuity, Localization, and Serialization (John Darowski)
  • 3. Where Monsters Dwell: Werewolf by Night in the House of Ideas (Matt Yockey)
  • 4. A Regular Husband and Wife: Gender and Genre in Marvel Studios' WandaVision (Viola Burlew)
• Part II. Supersex on the Small Screen
  • 5. Ice Closets and Homosocial Webs: Animating the Queer Sitcom in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (Cormac McGarry)
  • 6. "A Most Unusual Friendship": Kitty Pryde and Sapphic Identity in X-Men: Evolution (Stephanie Burt)
  • 7. Slapdick Comedy: Parody, Supersex, and Booby-Trapped Cookie Bouquets in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (Anna F. Peppard)
  • 8. She-Hulk's Postfeminist Legacy: From Page to Small Screen (Sam Langsdale)
• Part III. "A Never-Ending Battle for Truth and Justice"
  • 9. "Roads Not Taken": Intertextuality and Politics in the Reagan Era's Superboy (Dru Jeffries)
  • 10. Presenting as Human: Supergirl vs. Trump (Jeffrey A. Brown)
  • 11. Agents of Order or Enemies of the State: The Unconventional National Heroes of Peacemaker and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (James A. Willetts)
  • 12. "Between All of This Is a Border": Disney's Ms. Marvel and the (Missed) Opportunity for Radical Brownness (Rebecca Kumar and Cory Albertson)
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index