Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Note for Business Readers -- Chapter 1: DAY ZERO:HOTELOWEEN -- Chapter 2: WEDNESDAY: PREVIEW -- Backing Into the Future -- Setup -- Welcome t o Comic-Con -- Chapter 3: THURSDAY: LIFTOFF -- Larger than Life: Superheroes and the Future of the Man of Tomorrow -- Camp Breaking Dawn and the Twilight of the Boys Club -- Strange Synergies: What Do Sitcoms, Buddy Cops, and Talking Dogs Have to Do with Comics? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The Women's Liberation Movement in comic strips -- Crocodilites and Cathy: the worst of both worlds -- Visualizing motherhood in the comic frame: For better or for worse -- Punk rock girl: constituting community in Barry's Girls and boys -- Nicole Hollander's Sylvia: Menippean satire in the mainstream -- "The lesbian rule" in Alison Bechdel's Dykes to watch out for -- Establishing community through dis/association in Barbara Brandon-Croft's Where I'm coming from -- Something from nothing: the inductive argument of Stone soup…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CULTURA DE ÉLITE CULTURA SEIKATSU ; CIBERCULTURA ; CULTURA POPULAR O DE MASAS ; MANGA, EL CÓMIC JAPONÉS…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technologies and the reading publicShowmen and storytellers; Illustrated fictions; Children's fiction; Stage sets and toy theatres; Comic books and pulp fiction; Moving images; Disneyland television; The Disney version; 3 Mickey Mouse Chivalry: Chivalric Romance; 4 Fairy Tale Romance; 5 Monsters, Murders and Vampires: The Gothic Tradition; 6 The Riddles of the Sphinx: Egyptomania; 7 Boy's Own Stories: Explorer Heroes; 8 Treasure Islands and Blue Lagoons; 9 Future Imperfect: Science and Technology; 10 Constructing the Frontier: The Western; 11 Consuming the West: Main Street, USA; Notes…”

“…The evidence of the influence of the reading experience usually acquired in childhood on the whole future life, as well as the interest of several scientific disciplines (comic studies, literary science, religious studies, pedagogy) in the specific methods of the scout educator, writer of boys' literature and editor of several children's magazines is thus the first book venture going beyond theoretical considerations and hypotheses towards evidence based on surveys of readers and fans of Foglar's texts…”

“…Aria Minu-Sepehr takes us back through his explosive youth, into the heart of the revolution when a boy's hero, held up as the nation's pride, became a hunted man…”