Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 39
Transsexing Technological Man:
(Re)Writing the Comic Book Male/
Scientist in Sw am p Thing
Comic books are full o f superheroes defined or empowered by miracles of
technology and/or science: Batman, his utility belt full of crime-fighting tools and
tricks; Spiderman, bitten and transformed by a radioactive spider; Superman, whose
amazing abilities were originally introduced as scient