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Sutton, Laurel. "Aliens Are Just Like Us: Personal Names in The Legion of Super-Heroes." Names 64.(2016): 109–19. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2016.1159446
BibTeX citation key: Sutton2016
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Categories: General
Keywords: "The Legion of Super-Heroes", Language, Superhero, USA
Creators: Sutton
Collection: Names
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Abstract
Names created for alien comic-book characters in the 1960s provide an insight into cultural naming norms of the time; personal names had to be structurally familiar, so that readers could relate to them, yet different enough to seem other-worldly and/or futuristic. This analysis focuses on the personal names of The Legion of Super-Heroes, a team of super-powered teenagers from the thirty-first century. Their invented names conform sharply to English-speaking US American norms in terms of gender marking through syllable count and phonetic choice. The names of the future are very much like those of mid-twentieth-century American comic-book readers.
  
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