Download Fictional Concepts in Comics: Superhero, Supervillain, Secret Identity, Emotional Spectrum, Homo Magi, Metahuman, Mutant, Anti-Life Equation Online Book PDF

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Superhero, Supervillain, Secret identity, Emotional spectrum, Homo Magi, Metahuman, Mutant, Anti-Life Equation, Superpower, Speedster, Mutate, Science hero, Metamutant, Rogues gallery, Strength level, Legacy Hero, Cosmic entity. Excerpt: A superhero is a type of stock character dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes - ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas - have dominated comic books and crossed over into other media. The word itself dates to at least 1917. A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine. |Super heroes| is a trademark co-owned by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. By most definitions, characters strictly require actual superhuman powers to be deemed superheroes. However, this term can be applied to characters who perform the same functions but are devoid of such powers and abilities who are alternately referred to as costumed crime fighters; examples of the latter are characters such as Batman and Green Arrow. Such characters were generally referred to as |mystery men| in the late 1930s and 1940s (a period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books), to distinguish them from characters with super-powers. In the traditional paradigm, superheroes utilize their abilities to combat criminal actions and to supplement the endeavors of law enforcement by circumventing legal restrictions on police entities to achieve success. In addition to this fundamental purpose, a superhero is also prone to combating characters representing their polar opposites known as supervillains, which are usually characters possessing similar powers and abilities who utilize them for nefarious or malicious purposes. Traditionally, a superhero will regularly engage in physical and strategic combat with a ...