1. Richard Reynolds,Superheroes: A Modern Mythology(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992), 15.
2. Reynolds, 74.
3. Reynolds, 18.
4. John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett,The Myth of the American Superhero(Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002), 6.
5. Cited in Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert,The Great Canadian Comic Books(Toronto: Nelvana Limited, 1971), 31–35.