The World of DC Comics

By Andrew J Friedenthal and Andrew J. Friedenthal

Book Overview

The first sustained study of the DC Comics Multiverse, this book explores its history, meanings, and lasting influence. The multiverse is a unique exercise in world-building: a series of parallel and interactive worlds with a cohesive cosmology, developed by various creators over more than 50 years.

In examining DC's unique worlds and characters, the book illustrates the expansive potential of a multiverse, full of characters, histories, geographies, religions, ethnographies, and more, and allowing for expressions of legacy, multiplicity, and play that have defined much of DC Comics' output. It shows how a multiverse can be a vital, energizing part of any imaginary world, and argues that students and creators of such worlds would do well to explore the implications and complexities of this world-building technique.

Andrew J. Friedenthal has crafted a groundbreaking, engaging, and thoughtful examination of the multiverse, of interest to scholars and enthusiasts of not just comics studies, but also the fields of media studies and imaginary world studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103209270X
• ISBN13: 9781032092706
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"