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Glen Weldon is a contributor to NPR's pop culture blog Monkey See, where he posts weekly about comics and comics culture. He also reviews books and movies for NPR.org and is a regular panelist on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast.

Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a seriously terrible marine biologist and a slightly better-than-average competitive swimmer.

Weldon is the author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, a cultural history of the iconic characte. His fiction and criticism have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Story, The Iowa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Dallas Morning-News, Was ...more

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Too adorable for words

The pearls tho

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Too adorable for words

The pearls tho

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Average rating: 3.97 · 18,214 ratings · 2,859 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (From a Certain Point of View, #1) by Elizabeth Schaefer (Editor), Ben Acker (Contributor), Tom Angleberger (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 15,297 ratings — published 2017 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture 4.13 avg rating — 2,662 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: The Unauthorized Biography 3.91 avg rating — 1,176 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide: Create, Launch, and Grow a Podcast on Any Budget 4.26 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman Legend 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story Magazine : Autumn 1995 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Superman: A Biography : The Unauthorized Biography(Hardback) - 2013 Edition by Glen Weldon, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: The Unauthorized Biography by Glen Weldon(1996-04-12) by Glen Weldon, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Superman: A Biography: The Unauthorized Biography] [Author: Weldon, Glen] [April, 2013] by Glen Weldon, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Holy Adam West!”
― Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

tags: adam-west, batman, tv, tv-series

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“Detective Comic #27: The very first glimpse we get of the guy and already he looks pissed.”
― Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

tags: batman, comic, detective-comic, superhero

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“The Joker as sadistic chaos, the Batman as merciless order. This mirror-image theme would come to define the two characters' relationship in the comics and across all media for the next forty years.”
― Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

tags: batman, batman-comic, comics, mirror-image, the-joker

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605 posts
Glen Weldon's Blog

causeimanartist:

Too adorable for words

The pearls tho

Combine Editions
Glen Weldon’s books