Comic books incorporated: how the business of comics became the business of Hollywood

Introduction : an unruly medium

Incorporating comics : a brief transmedia history of the U.S. comic book industry

Comic book crisis : public relations, regulation, and distribution in the 1950s

Superman origins : authorship, creative labor, and copyright in the 1960s/1970s

Tales of the comic book cult : quality demographics and insider fans in the 1970s/1980s

Mutant risk : speculation and comic book films in the 1990s/2000s

Epilogue : a powerful medium

Appendix A : comic book adaptations for film and television

Appendix B : comic book film adaptations, 1955-2010.