Uncanny bodies : superhero comics and disability / edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz.

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

viii, 234 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Mechanical Boys" : Omega the unknown on the spectrum / José Alaniz -- Sane superheroes : Mental distress in the gutters of Moon Knight / Charlie Christie -- Echo : The silence between the notes / Sarah Bowden -- Mistress of cyberspace : Oracle, disability, and the cyborg / Marit Hanson -- More than a retcon replacement : disability, blackness, and sexuality in the origin of operator / Lauren O'Connor -- "Okay . . . this looks bad" : disability, masculinity, and ambivalence in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye / Daniel Pinti -- Deaf Issue : Hawkeye #19 and deaf accessibility in the comics medium / Naja Later -- That Hawkguy : Deaf and Disability Gain in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye / Sarah Gibbons -- Dialectical identity : Silver Scorpion as Disabled/Superhero / Deleasa Randall-Griffiths and Daniel J. O'Rourke -- "Of Course, I Am a Hero" : Disability as posthuman ideal in Cece Bell's El Deafo / Lauranne Poharec -- Unraveling the Supercrip : superheroes as subversion : a personal essay in comic form / Andrew Godfrey-Meers -- Fearsome possibilities : an afterword / Charles Hatfield.