His books include Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page (2017, Rutgers University Press) and Comic Book Movies (Forthcoming, Rutgers University Press). He is a contributor to the Eisner-Award-winning anthology The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (2015, Rutgers University Press), and has edited a collection of essays on Watchmen for a 2017 issue of Cinema Journal as well as a roundtable on comics and methodology for the inaugural issue of Inks (2017). Davis has chaired the Comics Studies scholarly interest group for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies since 2012. He recently received a grant to curate an archival collection of Christian comic books for the DePaul University Library, and his current research looks at numerous lesser-known Marvel Comics titles from the 1980s.