CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex 1
4. PART I. COMICS
5. 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power 31
6. 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age 57
7. 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm 79
8. 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers 103
9. 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes 129
10. 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers 151
11. PART II. FILM, TELEVISION, AND FAN CULTURE
12. 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability 175
13. 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy 199
14. 9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 221
15. 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity 245
16. 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies 265
17. 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power 291
18. 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay 317
19. EPILOGUE: The Matter with Size 341
20. CONTRIBUTORS 363
21. INDEX 367