Introduction: Should we discipline the reading of comics? / Henry Jenkins
Wordless comics: the imaginative appeal of Peter Kuper's The system / David Beronä
Comics modes: caricature and illustration in the Crumb family's Dirty laundry / Joseph Witek
Image functions: shape and color as hermeneutic images in Asterios Polyp / Randy Duncan
Time and narrative: unity and discontinuity in The invisibles / Marc Singer
Mise en scène and framing: visual storytelling in Lone wolf and cub / Pascal Lefèvre
Abstract form: sequential dynamism and iconostasis in abstract comics and Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man / Andrei Molotiu
Philosophy: "the triumph of the human spirit" in X-Men / Jeff McLaughlin
Comics journalism: drawing on words to picture the past in Safe area Goražde / Amy Kiste Nyberg
Propaganda: the pleasures of persuasion in Captain America / Christopher Murray
Political economy: manipulating demand and "The death of Superman" / Mark Rogers
Culture of consumption: commodification through Superman: return to Krypton / Ian Gordon
Ethnography of production: editor Axel Alonso and the sale of ideas / Stanford W. Carpenter
Auteur criticism: the re-visionary works of Alan Moore / Matthew J. Smith
History: discovering the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster / Brad J. Ricca
Genre: reconstructing the superhero in All star Superman / Peter Coogan
Ideology: the construction of race and history in Tintin in the Congo / Leonard Rifas
Feminism: second-wave feminism in the pages of Lois Lane / Jennifer K. Stuller
Intertextuality: superrealist intertextualities in Max's Bardín / Ana Merino, translated by Elizabeth Polli
Cultural studies: British girls' comics, readers and memories / Mel Gibson
Ethnography: wearing one's fandom / Jeffrey A. Brown
Critical ethnography: the comics shop as cultural clubhouse / Brian Swafford.