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"A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures" ( The New York Times Book Review ), Glen Weldon's The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world's most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him—now with a new afterword. Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night. Yet, despite these endless transformations, he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. In this "smart, witty, and engrossing" ( The Wall Street Journal ) cultural critique, NPR contributor and book critic Glen Weldon provides "a sharp, deeply knowledgeable, and often funny look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom" ( Chicago Tribune ) to discover why it is that we can't get enough of the Dark Knight. For nearly a century, Batman has cycled through eras of dark melodrama and light comedy and back again. How we perceive his character, whether he's delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double entendres with Robin the Boy Wonde

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Author

Glen Weldon; Simon & Schuster

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476756745

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.15 / 5 (1,252 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14