Post-Superheroes: Transcending Media

Guest Editor, Wendy Haslem

CONTENTS

1. Superhero by Numbers – Lisa Watson and Phil Stocks

2. El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero – Gabrielle Murray

3. America vs Japan: the Influence of American Comics on Manga – Ludovic Graillat

4. Superheroes, Superegos : Icons of War and the War of Icons in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro – Pascal Zinck

5. Why are Japanese Girls’ Comics full of Boys Bonking? – Mark McLelland

6. Enlightenment in a Dark Age: The Yogi as Spiritual Hero – Gary Hickey

7. Achilleus: Man of Bronze – Annabel Orchard