One of the first books to offer extended academic analysis on Western comics, despite the vast number of Western comics Raises issues of the nature of heroism and the role of violence in the construction of masculinity in lone hero figures Details how myths were created virtually contemporaneously to the actual events on which they were based

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David Huxley is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is the author of Nasty Tales: Sex Drugs and Rock n Roll in the British Underground and co-editor of Superheroes and Identities.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Inventing and Selling "Buffalo Bill" in Comic Books, 19491957.- 3. Billy the Kid: The Outlaw as Lone Hero, 19521958.- 4. Roping n' Riding: Selling Western Stars, 19461962.- 5. Conclusion.