Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION ONE: Not Just the American Way Rethinking the "Americanness" of US Superheroes -- THE TRANSPLANTED SUPERHERO: The Phantom Franchise and Australian Popular Culture -- THOR, GOD OF BORDERS: Transnationalism and Celestial Connections in the Superhero Film -- AMERICAN SUPERHEROES IN JAPANESE HANDS: Superhero Genre Hybridity as Superhero Systems Collide in Supaidāman -- SECTION TWO: Superheroes on World Screens From Local Productions to Transnational Blockbusters -- HEROES OF HALL H: Global Media Franchises, Doctor Who, and the San Diego Comic-Con as Space for the Transnational Superhero -- BLADE OF THE PHANTOM MASTER: Heroism, Gender, National Identity, and Cultural Translation in Japanese-Korean Animation -- "TU MERA SUPERMAN": Globalization, Cultural Exchange, and the Indian Superhero -- SECTION THREE: The Politics, Morality, and Socio-Cultural Impact of Superheroes on World Screens -- ALTERITY IN THE GENESIS OF THE CONTEMPORARY BRITISH TV SUPERHERO -- FIGHTING FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE ISLAMIC WAY: The 99, Global Superheroes for the Post-9/11 world -- THE CONTEMPORARY INCARNATION OF THAI SUPERHERO INSEE DAENG: A Divided Figure in a Divided Nation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.