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  Re: Mite Club: Metatextuality, Fandom, and Media Industry Responses in Batman: The Brave and the Bold

  As a fan of Bat-Mite, I found

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  Matt Yockey University of Toledo

  Wednesday, February 4, 2015 — 2:25 am

  As a fan of Bat-Mite, I found your post to be both illuminating and entertaining. While for many fans he does represent the nadir of Bat-silliness (along with Ace, the Bat-hound), to me Bat-Mite's always been emblematic of the inherent fun of Silver ...
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  Re: Batgirl and Feminism: the 1972 Equal Pay Act PSA

  Thank you for offering some

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  Matt Yockey University of Toledo

  Wednesday, February 4, 2015 — 3:26 pm

  Thank you for offering some important historical context for the birth and evolution of what has become one of the most popular characters in the DC universe. What I find particularly interesting about female superheroes is that they often bear the respon ...
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  Re: No Knight, no flight: Television's missing Dark Knight and Man of Steel

  What a thoughtful and

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  Matt Yockey University of Toledo

  Monday, February 2, 2015 — 8:21 pm

  What a thoughtful and interesting post on TV superheroes. I agree that budget constraints likely play a major role in the withholding of the superhero in some TV shows. The Superboy series that ran from 1988 to 1992 is strong evidence of such. And it make ...
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  Re: No Knight, no flight: Television's missing Dark Knight and Man of Steel

  Yes, good point! I too

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  Matt Yockey University of Toledo

  Wednesday, February 4, 2015 — 2:06 am

  Yes, good point! I too wonder about the line between hardcore fan and casual viewer. Certainly many fans are very invested in maintaining that boundary of knowledge and the perpetual recycling of origins always keeps an only occasionally interested genera ...