Weiser Books · November, 2007
A look at Superheroes and how they now serve the purpose Gods, and Demi-Gods served earlier mankind; It also looks at those who helped shape the modern comic heroes and their creators. 233 pgs.
I Want to Believe; Superheroes Reborn; Look, Uop In The Sky; Invocation; Decline and Fall; Kingdom Come; The Hero as Messiah; Hollywood Homegrown Heroes; The Cult of The Superhero; Ancient Mysteries; Dawn of the Gods; Sumer and Egypt; Greece and Rome; People of the Book; The Norse Sagas; An Empire of the Mind; The Fruits of Empire; The Radicals; Spiritualism; Secret Sects; The Rosicrucians; Freemasonry; Other Christs; The Victorian Occult Explosion; The Coming Race: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Vril; Madame Blavatsky and Theosophy; The Golden Dawn; Occult Superstars; Friedrich Nietsche; Aleister Crowley; Harry Houdini; Edgar Cayce; Pulp Fiction; Literary Luminaries; Edgar Allan Poe; Arthur Conan Doyle; Jules Verne; H.G. Wells; Bram Stoker; The Pulps; Hard-Boiled; Tarzan; Gladiators: The Pulp Superheroes; Amazing Stories; Weird Tales; Raconteurs; Edgar Rice Burroughs; Sax Rohmer; H.P. Lovecraft; Robert E. Howard; Dion Fortune; Jack Parsons: Rocketman; The New Gods; Famous Funnies; High Adventure; Dirty Dealings; Founding Fathers; Who Will Save Us?; Magic Men; Mandrake the Magician; Doctor Occult; The Messiahs; Superman; Captain Marvel; Captain Clones; Super-Horus: Hawkman and the Falcon; Captain America; The Silver Age Science Heroes; The Pornography of Violence; Seduction; The Code; The Silver Age; Spider-Man; The Silver Surfer; The Golems; Batman; Dark Knight: The God of Vengeance; Bat-Clones; Kirby’s Rage: The Thing and the Hulk; Death Dealers; The Amazons; Wonder Woman; And Others Just Like Her; The Complex Elektra; The Brotherhoods; Teen Teams: The Legion and the Titans; The Fantastic Four; The X-Men; The Illuminati; Wizards Redux; Ibis The Invincible; Doctor Fate; Doctor Strange; Constantine; Mad Scientists; Gods and Men; The Visionaries; Jack Kirby; Steve Englehart; Alan Moore; Neil Gaiman; Grant Morrison; Mike Mignola; Alex Ross; The Dream Lab: Comics And The Future; Conclusion: The Gods Within Us; Spirit in the Sky
Writer: Chris Knowles
Artist: Joseph Michael Linsner