Notes
1. Richard Reynolds, Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992), 8.
2. Don LoCicero, Superheroes and Gods: A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman (Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Company, 2008).
3. John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2002).
4. Reynolds, 16.
5. IReynolds, 16.
6. Dennis Dooley and Gary Engle, ed., Superman at Fifty! The Persistence of a Legend! (Cleveland, OH: Octavia Press, 1987); Danny Fingeroth, Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Society (New York: Continuum, 2004), 53.
7. Reynolds, 77.
8. John Shelton Lawrence, “Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Society (Book Review),” Journal of American Culture, 28 (2005): 455.
9. Fingeroth, 162.
10. Reynolds, 77; see also Lawrence and Jewett.
11. Fingeroth, 120.
12. Fingeroth, 121; see also Reynolds, 66.
13. Reynolds, 60.
14. Fingeroth, 164.