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The caped crusade : Batman and the rise of nerd culture

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2016

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Title:	The caped crusade : Batman and the rise of nerd culture
Author:	Weldon, Glen, author.
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. ©2016
Description:	viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.
Subjects:	Batman (Fictitious character) -- History. Batman (Fictitious character) -- Social aspects. Batman (Comic strip) -- History. Comic strip characters.
Contents:	Batman, nerd -- Origin and growing pains (1939-1949) -- Panic and aftermath (1948-1964) -- Same bat-time (1965-1969) -- Back to the shadows (1969-1985) -- Bat-noir (1986-1988) -- The goth of Gotham (1989-1996) -- The caped crusade (1992-2003) -- Trilogy of terror (2005-2012) -- The unified theory (2004-).
ISBN	1476756694

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