| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Tracing the author's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes (RLSHs), this book examines citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and have hit the streets to fight injustice in a variety of ways. Some RLSHs concentrate on humanitarian or activist missions-helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or delivering toys to children-while others actively patrol their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. By day, these modern Clark Kents work as dishwashers, pencil pushers, and executives in Fortune 5. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Real Life Superheroes; American Superheroes; Boy Scouts and Batmen; Early Prototypes; Great Lakes Alliance; The Secret City; Coming Out of the Phone Booth; A Tapestry of Evil; The Man in the Green Skull Mask; International Justice Injection; Challengers, Assemble!; Brooklyn's Ex-Superheroes; Mr. Jones and Me; People Fighting and Superheroes and Pepper Spray and ... I Don't Know; An Age of Heroes?; Epilogue: Masking Up; Acknowledgments; On Line Resources; Notes; Index; Back Cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Community activists -- United States.
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Community activists. |
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United States. |
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Crime prevention -- United States -- Citizen participation.
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Crime prevention. |
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Political participation. |
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Social justice -- United States.
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Social justice. |
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Superheroes -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Superheroes. |
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Krulos, Tea. Heroes in the night : inside the real life superhero movement /. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, ©2013 276 pages 9781613747759 (DLC) 2013022099 |
| ISBN |
9781613747766 (e-book) |
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1613747764 (e-book) |
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9781613747759 (paperback) |
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9781613747780 |
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1613747780 |
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1613747756 |
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