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Books Received

2021; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 46; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/chq.2021.0022

1553-1201

Mark I. West,

Comics and Graphic Narratives

Books Received Mark I. West ________ Batman: The Animated Series. By Joe Sutliff Sanders. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Part of Wayne State University Press’s TV Milestones Series, Batman: The Animated Series provides an overview of the Batman television cartoon that debuted in September 1992 on the Fox Children’s Network. Joe Sutliff Sanders discusses how this animated series grew out of the earlier versions of the Batman story, and he explains how this series reflects an animation style known as Dark Deco. Sanders also analyzes how this series portrays several of the key characters associated with the larger Batman story, such as the Penguin, the Riddler, and Harley Quinn. ________ Girls to the Rescue: Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I. By Emily Hamilton-Honey and Susan Ingalls Lewis. McFarland, 2020. This volume provides a detailed analysis of girls’ series books that came out during World War I. The authors show the various ways in which the central characters in these stories contribute to the war effort by playing supportive roles on the home front and by participating directly in wartime activities. The authors argue that in some cases the adventurous heroines in these stories provided girl readers with feminist role models. ________ The Man in Black. By Paul Braddon. Foreword by Joseph L. Rainone. Dark Lantern Tales, 2020. Dark Lantern Tales specializes in republishing dime novels and other forms of pulp fiction from the late nineteenth century. This volume brings back into print Paul Braddon’s The Man in Black, which originally appeared as a serial in The Boys of New York in 1882. In his foreword, Joseph L. Rainone argues that The Man in Black can be seen as a precursor to Bob Kane’s Batman. This volume also includes Anthony P. Morris’s Dane Darrell, Baltimore Detective, or; “Piping” The Bats of the Basin, which was originally published in 1886 in the Old Cap Collier Library. This story also has points in common with Batman. [End Page 201] Copyright © 2021 Children’s Literature Association