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Book

The caped crusade : Batman and the rise of nerd culture

Call Number

  • 741.5973 W4453 (CEN)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Physical Description

viii, 324 pages, [8] pages of color 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.

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