Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero's unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation as a symptom of the films’ mode of production. Since the 1930s, the dominant American comics publishers have treated the creations of artists and writers as work for hire, such that stories and characters become company property. Thus, publishers avoided sharing the profits both from magazine sales and from licensing characters into other media. For decades, creators have challenged this regime, demanding either shares of profits or outright ownership of their creations. Now that the duopoly rents, licenses, and adapts superheroes for increasingly expensive franchises, and for growing international audiences, any challenge to intellectual property relations threatens a production regime worth billions of dollars. Duopoly movies, therefore, present any attempt to break the superhero’s monopoly on their powers as the scheme of terrorists, mad scientists, or space Nazis—assuaging studio anxieties and revealing the fears of those who benefit most from the real-world ownership of superheroes. Weaving together legal analysis, Marxist political economy, and close readings of movies, Copyright Vigilantes explains the preoccupations of Hollywood’s leading genre.

VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND is a hard-hitting tale of revenge and redemption from acclaimed crime novelist Gary Phillips (PEEPLAND) and artist Elena Casagrande (SUICIDE RISK) that puts an uncompromising, contemporary spin on the classic Marv Wolfman and George Pérez-created character. Donny thought he had it all. A cushy life in L.A. and a brilliant and beautiful girlfriend, Dorrie. While Donny just never seemed to have time for social causes, Dorrie dedicated her life to fighting societal and racial injustice…but crime and corruption have a way of fighting back. Now Dorrie’s dead…and Donny is left behind to take up the battle. It’s the last thing he ever expected, but the more he learns about the shadowy forces that killed the woman he loved, the more determined he is to find justice—by any means necessary. Conspiracies. Corporations. Assassins. Family secrets best left buried. The system can’t stop any of them from taking their bloody toll, but Donny can. All he needs is his fists, his smarts, a little training…and a mask. Because sometimes doing the right thing means breaking the law. He is the Vigilante. How far will he go to set the wrong things right? Collects VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND issues #1-6, with the first publication of issues #4-6.

David Joseph is a skilled psychologist who helps the police in solving criminal cases. A wave of new cases sweeps through the country. The crimes are all too familiar: acts of violence against women, with the perpetrators slipping through the cracks of a broken system. As frustration grows, a group of rape survivors and their families form an underground alliance, determined to take the law into their own hands. But was the alliance formed only to serve vigilante justice, or is there a deeper motive behind it?

Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.

The Silver Queen, a reality-bending villainess, listlessly longs for something to do with her immense powers that won't bore her to death. Watching the tantalizing heroines of the world running around with their idealism, morals, and modest talents, she decides there are no better toys to play with. Dixie Grayson is a former sidekick trying to save the world on her own. She is doing her best to deal with all the stress that comes with the solo vigilante life when her life starts to change in small and big ways. A mysterious power starts altering and, in some cases, rewriting the course of her destiny, making her something entirely new. Who is the true Dixie underneath it all: the hero, the housewife, the bimbo, the sex doll, or something in between?

Developed from the A-5 nuclear bomber and used in a reconnaissance role, the RA-5C Vigilante was the largest and fastest aeroplane ever to operate from the deck of an aircraft carrier. During the Vietnam War it sustained the highest loss ratio of any American aircraft in that conflict. This volume includes compelling accounts of combat missions over key communist targets, where crews dodged Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs) and anti-aircraft fire to secure all-important mission photographs. Written by a Vigilante combat veteran this book is crammed full of action-packed first-hand accounts.

Enjoy the 2nd book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. She only had one night with him. Then she had to disappear. Jessica had always been the good girl. She did what she was supposed to do, was kind to others, and always put her job ahead of her personal life. Which was why she was still single at thirty-three, even though she’d been lusting over her boss’s baby brother for years. She finally got a date with him, two to be exact. And then she found her best friend. Dead. Braden thought his firefighter friends were joking when they said his date was on the TV, but they weren’t. Jessica, his Jessica, was wanted for murder? She wouldn’t hurt a soul, especially not her best friend. But she was missing. His calls went straight to voicemail. She hadn’t shown up to work. Innocent people didn’t run. The only way to clear Jessica’s name is to expose whoever set her up. Without resources and with the entire city looking for her. Jessica doesn’t know where to start, but she’s willing to fight to find the truth…and justice.

Enjoy the 7th book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. Becoming an instant billionaire should have made her happy. Instead, it made her a target. Caring for others kept Dawn from falling apart completely. She made mistakes, big ones that took her kids from her. Giving back made her feel like she was doing something right. She never expected to be named in her patient’s will. Especially when she discovers the sweet man she shared all her secrets with had a few of his own. Like he was a billionaire, and left his company, estate, and billions to her instead of his only son. Gage tried to talk his dying client out of the changes to his will. Leaving everything to the beautiful, curvy nurse he barely knew instead of his dangerous, hot-headed son was sure to send the son into a tailspin. Gage wanted to protect Dawn, but he knew his client was capable of making the decision, and had to believe he had a good reason for cutting his son out of the will. Dawn’s life turns upside down when she’s named the heir. She’s being watched. She’s being followed. She’s being stalked. She didn’t ask for the life she was given, or the money. Everyone wants a piece of her. Except the one man she wished she never met. Gage.

Enjoy the 4th book in the steamy BBW romantic suspense series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Mary E Thompson. Justice is coming… because she’s bringing it. Mackenzie never wanted anyone else to go through the same hell she went through. Being wrongly accused of murder nearly broke her, but letting someone get away with murder would be worse. She was convinced she knew the truth, until she discovered the woman who was supposed to be dead was very much alive. Holden has been in love with Mackenzie since the day they met. She’s smart and stunning and completely oblivious of his feelings for her. He’s finally ready to ask her out, but she has her other plans. Bringing justice to the city’s most dangerous criminal. And she refuses to let Holden help. Trust doesn’t come easily for Mackenzie, but facing evil alone is not something she can do. Holden has always been kind, and she quickly learns he’s also funny and smart and a damn good kisser. But none of that will help her get justice for the woman on the other end of the phone as she gasps for her last breath. A breath Mackenzie will make sure was not a waste.