The Encyclopedia 0f Comic Book Heroes began as something of a lark, and ended as a labor of love. In early 1969, I was working as a writer/editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, writing entries for an encyclopedia that the company intended to market orcrseas. One afternoon, as a humorous way of relieving the ofllce tedium, one of the other writers composed a short biography of Clark Kent written in the same stuny, pedantic style that characterized the biographies of real people in the encyclopedia we were working on. “KENT, CLARK,’· it began. “United States journalist who is secretly Superman . . . .” As the bogus entry made its way around the room, the editorial office exploded with laughter. People laughed because, by using a serious, pseudoscholarly style in connection with subject matter generally regarded as frivolous, the author had successfully satirized the pomposity of our encyclopedia. [download]
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