Heroes in the night : inside the real life superhero movement

Heroes in the night : inside the real life superhero movement / Tea Krulos.

Tracing the author's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes (RLSHs), this book examines citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and have hit the streets to fight injustice in a variety of ways. Some RLSHs concentrate on humanitarian or activist missions-helping...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krulos, Tea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Community activists > United States.
Crime prevention > United States > Citizen participation.
Social justice > United States.
Superheroes > Social aspects > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
TRUE CRIME > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Community activists
Crime prevention > Citizen participation
Social justice
United States
Electronic books.
True crime stories
True crime stories.
Récits criminels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Real Life Superheroes; American Superheroes; Boy Scouts and Batmen; Early Prototypes; Great Lakes Alliance; The Secret City; Coming Out of the Phone Booth; A Tapestry of Evil; The Man in the Green Skull Mask; International Justice Injection; Challengers, Assemble!; Brooklyn's Ex-Superheroes; Mr. Jones and Me; People Fighting and Superheroes and Pepper Spray and ... I Don't Know; An Age of Heroes?; Epilogue: Masking Up; Acknowledgments; On Line Resources; Notes; Index; Back Cover.

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