Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism

by Paul Young

Book Overview

2017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success story, doubling its sales within three years. Lawyer by day and costumed vigilante by night, the character of Daredevil was the perfect vehicle for the explorations of heroic ideals and violence that would come to define Miller's work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081356381X
• ISBN13: 9780813563817
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher