The Caped Crusade: Batman And The Rise Of Nerd Culture

"“Batman is an inkblot; we see in him what we want to,” writes Glen Weldon in The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. It might as well be the book’s mantra. His hilarious, incisive history of the Dark Knight focuses equally on the character, his creators and his hordes of diehard fans as they have all changed over the decades — for better and for worse. Under that iconic cowl, Weldon sees ugliness, wonder and the undercurrents of pop culture in all their conflicting glory."