Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Real Life Superheroes; American Superheroes; Boy Scouts and Batmen; Early Prototypes; Great Lakes Alliance; The Secret City; Coming Out of the Phone Booth; A Tapestry of Evil; The Man in the Green Skull Mask; International Justice Injection; Challengers, Assemble!; Brooklyn's Ex-Superheroes; Mr. Jones and Me; People Fighting and Superheroes and Pepper Spray and ... I Don't Know; An Age of Heroes?; Epilogue: Masking Up; Acknowledgments; On Line Resources; Notes; Index; Back Cover
Summary
Tracing the author's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes (RLSHs), this book examines citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and have hit the streets to fight injustice in a variety of ways. Some RLSHs concentrate on humanitarian or activist missions-helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or delivering toys to children-while others actively patrol their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. By day, these modern Clark Kents work as dishwashers, pencil pushers, and executives in Fortune 5
