Description: The first book to tackle the blue-collar hero and working-class creators
Brief description: Marc DiPaolo is assistant professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He is author of Fire & Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to "Game of Thrones"; War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film; and Emma Adapted: Jane Austen's Heroine from Book to Film. He has edited five collections of scholarly essays on intersections of film, literature, politics, and religion, and has been interviewed on NPR and BBC 4.
Review Quotes: It's a bird, a plane, a flying bullet. . . no it's the working class who achieve the impossible and vanquish the bad guys. Under Marc DiPaolo's masterful direction, his scholarly super team of ten takes us on an unforgettable journey into comic book history that opens eyes wide to a panoply of proletarian heroes and their superpowers as created in and through economies of work and intersectional identities. Working-Class Comic Book Heroes is our revolution.--Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar and author of Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics