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Supergods, July 2011
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What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Spiegel & Grau
July 2011
On Sale: July 19, 2011
464 pages ISBN: 1400069122 EAN: 9781400069125 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the
world of comics comes a thrilling and provocative
exploration of humankind’s great modern myth: the superhero
The first superhero comic ever published, Action Comics no.
1 in 1938, introduced the world to something both
unprecedented and timeless: Superman, a caped god for the
modern age. In a matter of years, the skies of the imaginary
world were filled with strange mutants, aliens, and
vigilantes: Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Iron
Man, and the X-Men—the list of names as familiar as our own.
In less than a century, they’ve gone from not existing at
all to being everywhere we look: on our movie and television
screens, in our videogames and dreams. But what are they
trying to tell us? For Grant Morrison, arguably the greatest of contemporary
chroniclers of the “superworld,” these heroes are powerful
archetypes whose ongoing, decades-spanning story arcs
reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through
them we tell the story of ourselves, our troubled history,
and our starry aspirations. In this exhilarating work of a
lifetime, Morrison draws on art, science, mythology, and his
own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to
provide the first true history of the superhero—why they
matter, why they will always be with us, and what they tell
us about who we are . . . and what we may yet become.
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