Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Into the “Gutters” 1
6. CHAPTER 1 “World’s Finest”? The Wartime Superhero and Race, 1941–1945 19
7. CHAPTER 2 Struggling for Social Relevance: DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945–1965 50
8. CHAPTER 3 “We’re All Brothers!”: The Ideal of Liberal Brotherhood in the 1960s and 1970s 88
9. CHAPTER 4 Guess Who’s Coming to Save You? The Rise of the Ethnic Superhero in the 1960s and 1970s 126
10. CHAPTER 5 “Something for Everyone”: The Superteam in the Age of Multiculturalism, 1975–1996 176
11. CHAPTER 6 Replacement Heroes and the Quest for Inclusion, 1985–2011 216
12. CHAPTER 7 Something Old, Something New: Heroes Reborn and Reimagined, 1990–2015 255
13. Coda: Born Again (and Again and Again . . . and Again and Again . . .) 293
14. Notes 311
15. Bibliography 343
16. Index 362