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- Title
HI SUPERMAN, I'M A LAWYER: GUIDE TO ATTORNEYS (AND OTHER LEGAL PROFESSIONALS) PORTRAYED IN AMERICAN COMIC BOOKS: 1910-2007.
- Authors
Hilyerd, William A.
- Abstract
The article offers information on how lawyer characters are portrayed in comic books and strips. History showed that until 1960s, lawyer reputations were portrayed as having been highly moral and law-abiding citizens until mental illness caused them to break with their prior roots and turn to crime which made them appeared on the side of the accused. It mentions Harvey Dent, one of the many attorney characters who have been introduced in 1942 in multiple comic books, movies, television shows and video games. It notes that in the past 30 years, legal works were not the first priority of lawyer characters, rather, they shifted from being a secret identity to an actual profession in comic books.
- Subjects
COMIC strip characters; LAWYERS; LEGAL television programs; LEGAL films; LEGAL stories; LAWYERS in art; COMIC books, strips, etc.; CARICATURES &; cartoons; TWO-Face (Fictional character); PORTRAITS
- Publication
Widener Law Review, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 1, p159
- ISSN
1933-5555
- Publication type
Article