Stan Lee

Once Peter Parker received his miraculous spider powers, the last thing he wanted to do was go out and get a colorful costume and fight crime.

In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.

From villain to antihero, nationalist to freedom fighter, the comic book character has always been a reflection of the Jewish cultural identity.

Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviors who could combat the Nazi threat.

Marvel's heroes are back again, but with little of the subversive aura that once surrounded them.

From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life.

The African roots of the Black Panther story.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins invented the setting that eventually became Wakanda in her science fiction, but her name isn't widely known.

A sweeping new history traces the rise of characters caught in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.

Superman et al were invented amid feverish eugenic speculation: what does the superhero craze say about our own times?

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

Much is at stake in understanding the history and relationship between black superheroes and black revolutionaries.