Detective Comics 1937 318

“THE CAT-MAN STRIKES BACK!” The Cat-Man returns to bedevil Gotham City!

From William Dickson's Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann's big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like Moby-Dick, particular literary periods like the American Renaissance, or particular genres like the novel, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed American literature as a cinematic genre in its own right-one that reflects the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas even as it plays a decisive role in defining American literature for a global audience.

The Batman tracks down an unusual safe that holds the loot taken years before by the SlasherÕs mob. With the Slasher supposedly dead, the villain has left behind a note leading the Caped Crusaders to the safe, which has seven switches, only one of which opens the door...the rest are connected to a bomb! Disclaimer: May contain offensive imagery that does not reflect the views and or policies of DC Comics.

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field. This important collection from a leading international group of scholars presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of childhood.

“PIGMIES IN GIANTLAND.” A crazed scientist called Dr. Agar tries to convince wealthy people that he has created a shrinking gas capable of reducing anything to one-fifth of its normal size. How will Batman and Robin defeat this new foe when they themselves are captured and shrunk?! Plus, “MODERN PAUL REVERE” and “ROGUES AND RED HOTS.”

Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. “Everything you might want in a page-turner … skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even while celebrating conventional family life in a regular column that Marston and Byrne wrote for Family Circle, they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. Includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers, and 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color.

ÒBATMAN: THE BIZARRE POLKA-DOT MAN.Ó Batman and Robin confront a new costumed criminal in Gotham by the name of Mr. Polka Dot, who has started a crime wave based on spots and dots.

The Tulpa story concludes as Batman is forced to face the Demon Etrigan...and confronts a mirror image of himself.