Charles Hatfield is associate professor of English at California State University, Northridge, and is author, coauthor, or coeditor of many books, including The Superhero Reader, Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, and Hand of Fire: The Comic Art of Jack Kirby, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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