Tag: Superheroes

  • Revelations is out!

    Revelations is out!

    Happy book birthday to Revelations: Book 1 of The Protectorate!

    A team of young superheroes…

    …is fated to save the world!

    In a world where superhumans have existed since the 1950s, superheroes are nevertheless uncommon. A new team of young heroes has formed, but they soon find they are in over their heads and facing off against forces they could not have imagined!

    Revelations: Book One of The Protectorate is now available!

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  • Origins of Black Superheroes

    Origins of Black Superheroes

    While superhero comics were born with Superman in 1938, it would be several years before black characters began to appear even in supporting roles, and more than three decades before a black superhero would headline a comic of his own. More and more black heroes would appear in the ensuing decades.

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  • Rise of the Public Domain Superheroes

    Rise of the Public Domain Superheroes

    Almost immediately after Superman first appeared in 1938’s Action Comics , other publishers took note of the character’s instant popularity, and rushed to produce similar characters of their own, giving rise to both the term “superhero” and to an entirely new genre of speculative fiction. Many of these publishers went out of business. Others failed to provide proper copyright notices, or to renew their copyrights, as required under the copyright laws in effect at the time. The laws have changed in the intervening decades, but those older works had already fallen into what is known as the public domain.

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