Kent Worcester, Bronx, New York, is professor of political science at Marymount Manhattan College. His most recent books are "The Superhero Reader" (coedited with Charles Hatfield and Jeet Heer), "A Comics Studies Reader" (coedited with Jeet Heer), and "Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium" (coedited with Jeet Heer), all published by University Press of Mississippi.