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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.

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Helene Shugart

Helene A. Shugart is an associate professor of Communication at the University of Utah. Her work critically examines mediated cultural productions of power, especially as relevant to sexuality, gender, and race