ABBREVIATIONS

I have listed below the primary texts of the present work, which I cite in these abbreviated forms in the body of the book. The various superhero story arcs, and many more not listed here, were generally consulted in their archival, omnibus, or graphic-novel editions. The page numbers cited generally refer to these editions and not to the original comics, unless the omnibus edition in question (e.g., New X-Men) does not use global page numbers. In that case, I employ an issue/page number sequence.

B	Whitley Strieber, Breakthrough
C	Conan the Barbarian (Barry Windsor-Smith Archives edition)
COM	Whitley Strieber, Communion
CON	Whitley Strieber, Confirmation
DI	Philip K. Dick, The Divine Invasion
DIS	Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions
DP	X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
F	Ray Palmer, ed., Forum
FW	The Fourth World
GS	Alvin Schwartz, A Gathering of Selves
I	The Invisibles
K	Whitley Strieber, The Key
NXM	New X-Men
O	Barry Windsor-Smith, OPUS I and OPUS II
UXM	The Uncanny X-Men
P	Promethea
PV	Lawrence Sutin, ed., In Pursuit of Valis
SR	Lawrence Sutin, ed., The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
SS	Whitley Strieber, The Secret School
SW	Ray Palmer, The Secret World
T	Whitley Strieber, Transformation
TTA	Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
UP	Alvin Schwartz, An Unlikely Prophet
V	Philip K. Dick, VALIS
XM	The X-Men