The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood

The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X—Men, Spider—Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Arrowverse, and the Walking Dead Universe in the 2010s.

Perren and Steirer illustrate how the American comic book industry simultaneously has functioned throughout the first two decades of the twenty—first century as a relatively ...