num_pages: 290
description: An entertaining and exhaustive history, tracing the superhero's roots in mythology, science fiction, and pulps, which follows the genre's development to its current renaissance in film, literature, and graphic novels.
language: English
title: Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre
titlecomplete: Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre
genres: History, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 68
publisher: UNKNO