LAW AND POPULAR CULTURE: COMICS AND CARTOONS

Comic heroes such as Batman, Superman, the Green Lantern, Spiderman, and the Atom are essentially vigilantes. What message do they send about the effectiveness of law to meet criminal threats? What message do comics about alternative worlds send about the inevitability and the origins of crime and injustice?

The Aquaman Page

The Aquaman FAQ

The Atom (see also Law and Science Fiction)

The Black Canary

The Unofficial Blackhawk Comics Website

BodyCount (the Suicide Squad)

The Challengers of the Unknown Website (see also Law and Science Fiction)

Comics Research Bibliography

Fact File: The Justice Society of America Home Page

JSA Returns

JSA: The Golden Age Years

Dr. Fate Page

DCU MUSH (role playing game featuring the JSA)

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Elongated Man (compare with the character of Eugene Toombs on The X-Files)

The Flash (see also Law, the Humanities and the Biological Sciences and ecological and environmental law materials)

The Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning Website

The Hawkman

Hawkworld

The Huntress

Infinity: "Dedicated to Forgotten Heroes"

Mageddon

Nightwing

BATMAN

Among the interesting topics to explore are the roles of Catwoman and other female villains compared with other female evildoers in popular culture, and the question of whether upbringing or unfortunate accident (the Penguin) should excuse antisocial behavior.

• Arkham Asylum - home for the criminally insane and Gotham's most sinister villains.
• Bad Side of the Coin: The Two-Face - devoted to Two-Face, the best villain in Batman and, for that matter, all comic books.
• Bat's Cave, The
  • Batgirl
  • Batgirl Archives
  • Batgirl On-Line
  • Batgirl Webring
  • Batgirls of Gotham 
  • Dark Knight Damsel
• Batlympus
• Batman - The Dark Knight
• Batman Movies@
• Batman the Animated Series@
• The Catwoman Center
• Catwoman Home Page
• Com Pulse Up-link Site - Batman
• Feline Fatale (Catwoman Site)
• Golden Age Batman Page 
• Gotham City Limits 
• Gotham Gazette
• Gotham Monsters
• Knight Quest - Searchable database
• New Batman/Superman Adventures (Official site)
• No Man's Land  (mostly about Gotham City)
• The Caped Crusader
• TV Show@
• Usenet - alt.comics.batman

THE GREEN LANTERN

• Green Lantern [geocities.com]
• Green Lantern Corps
• Green Lantern Review Website
• Guy Gardner
  • Guy Gardner
  • Guy Gardner Page
• New Oa
• Parallax20's Corps Page - all about Hal Jordan, the former Green Lantern who became Parallax.
• Unofficial Green Lantern Page - with reviews and a picture gallery.
• Usenet - alt.comics.green-lantern

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA

• Captain's Justice League
• Jason's JLA Page
• Justice League Cover Gallery
• Martin's JLA Page

LEGION OF SUPERHEROES

• Bits O' Legionnaire Business
• Get-a-Life Boy's Legion of Super-Heroes Site
• Kent Shakespeare - DC's original Impulse.
• Legion of Super-Heroes [cmu.edu]
• Legion of Super-Heroes [peak.org] - pointers to Legion info sites, and information on the current titles Legionnaires, and Legion of Super-Heroes.
• Legion of Superheroes [geocities.com]
• Legion of Superheroes [Lev Kalman]
• Legionnaires Mission Monitor Board
• LSH.Org
• Mirror Lad's Legion of Super-Heroes Icon Gallery - a gallery celebrating the artwork of the Legion of Super-Heroes, past, present, and future!
• Web Directory: Legion of Super-Resources
• FAQ - rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh - for the Legion of Super Heroes newsgroup.
• Usenet - rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh