...Mary-Jane Deeb The 99 superhero comics were first published in 2006 by Teshkeel Comics, a division of the Teshkeel media group, in Kuwait. Deeb’s essay covers this comics phenomenon within the context of contemporary Arab society. It analyzes the importance of the historical framework within which...

..., in the Central Himalayas. But such re- numan — devoted servant of Rama in the Rama- location is not so much a solution as the source yana and himself the pugnacious superhero deity of new problems — for the people in the places to of the militant right-­wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak which the monkeys...

... of animated films, or picnic, wearing Western clothes and dancing in Bol- as an animated character in a feature film, that lywood style to the song “G for Genius” (with a guest focus on him as a child, and often as a superhero, appearance by the famous choreographer Ganesh forming a definite children’s...

... and artists well entertain the US- born Iranian child but ro- alike — ranging from John Ruskin and Charles manticizes the “Golden Age” of Persia through Baudelaire to Paul Gauguin and Henri Mat- largely recycled superhero themes and warrior isse...