We live in a world of mass media, where many forms of media can be used for entertainment or education. In the early 20th century, with the first appearances of film and radio, comics also experienced ...

History tends to repeat itself, and The History of the Superhero in Film at Joel D. Valdez Library provides a leg up to prospective superhero historians. Follow Alex Furrier on Twitter. 0 ...

Filmmakers Michael Kantor and Lawrence Maslon discuss their new three-part documentary, "Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle," with CBR News before its October 15 broadcast on PBS.

Discover the history of black female superheroes in comic books, movies and TV — from Eartha Kitt's Catwoman to Letitia Wright's Shuri.

Even the promotional image for Marvel’s just-announced 2015 event, Secret Wars, features heroes fighting each other (literally in some cases, given the sight of multiple incarnations of the same ...

A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society explores the untold history of comic books, a cultural phenomenon born in 1930’s New York that later took the world by storm.

Before the Marvel Comics film "Black Panther" became a box office hit, superheroes were almost always white. A look back at how Black characters emerged. In an upcoming book, Lucky Luke gets help ...

But the superhero movie is nothing new; in fact, men-in-cape flicks have been with us almost since Superman made his debut in the pages of Action Comics way back in in 1938.

But Marvel has a storied history of creating female versions of their characters for trademark purposes. Aside from Wonder Woman (whose own story is covered in an excellent new book called The Secret ...

After the advent of the Fantastic Four, however, that idea seemed old-fashioned — within a year of Marvel’s flagship title launching, the team had not only faced off against the Sub-Mariner ...