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Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans (Studies in Popular Culture Series) by Brown, Jeffrey A., 1966- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'A history of the trailblazing comics that broke color barriers and portrayed African Americans in heroic storylines What do the comic book figures Static, Hardware, and Icon all have in common? Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans gives an answer that goes far beyond''tights and capes,''an answer that lies within the mission Milestone Media, Inc., assumed in comic book culture. Milestone was the brainchild of four young black creators who wanted to part from the mainstream and do their stories their own way. This history of Milestone, a''creator-owned''publishing company, tells how success came to these mavericks in the 1990s and how comics culture was expanded and enriched as fans were captivated by this new genre. Milestone focused on the African American heroes in a town called Dakota. Quite soon these black action comics took a firm position in the controversies of race, gender, and corporate identity in contemporary America. Characters battled supervillains and sometimes even clashed with more widely known superheroes. Front covers of Milestone comics often bore confrontational slogans like''Hardware: A Cog in the Corporate Machine is About to Strip Some Gears.

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Author

Brown, Jeffrey A., 1966-

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781578062812

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Crafts & Hobbies, Science

Rating

3.81 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14