03367cam a2200613 4500 2720157386 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780472904501 0472904507 B0DVLRR7Z7 Amazon 3aa29b21-59fc-467f-ba17-1375313481e0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11588464 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kee, Chera. Corpse Crusaders [Libby eBook] : The Zombie in American Comics. University of Michigan Press, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Tales of the Zombie. Popular Culture. marvel zombies. Blackest Night. Purple Zombie. living dead. Simon Garth. golden age. comic book. Gwen Dylan. superhero. milestone. deadworld. David Kim. vertigo. izombie. zombie. marvel. Horror. undead. gender. U.S. . comix. Xombi. race. dc. HTML:In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books—zombies that aren't quite what most people think zombies should be. There have been zombie slaves, zombie henchmen, talking zombies, beautiful zombies, and even zombie heroes.<br /> <br /> Using archival research into Golden Age comics and extended analyses of comics from the 1940s to today, <i>Corpse Crusaders</i> explores the profound influence early action/adventure and superheroic generic conventions had on shaping comic book zombies. It takes the reader from the 1940s superhero, the Purple Zombie, through 1950s revenge-from-the-grave zombies, to the 1970s anti-hero, Simon Garth ("The Zombie") and the gruesome heroes-turned-zombies of <i>Marvel Zombies</i>. In becoming immersed in superheroic logics early on, the zombie in comics became a figure that, unlike the traditional narrative uses of other monsters, actually served to defend the status quo. This continuing trend not only provides insight into the overwhelming influence superheroes have had on the comic book medium, but it also provides a unique opportunity to explore the ways in which zombiism and superheroism parallel each other. <i>Corpse Crusaders</i> explores the ways that truth, justice, and the American way have influenced the undead in comics and turned what is often a rebellious figure into one that works to save the day. Comic and Graphic Books. Fiction. Horror. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3aa29b21-59fc-467f-ba17-1375313481e0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3aa29b21-59fc-467f-ba17-1375313481e0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)