How to be a superhero
By: Mark Edlitz
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Albany, Georgia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781593937898; 9781593937911
Subjects: Television actors and actresses; Interviews; Motion picture actors and actresses; Superheroes; Superhéros
Description: "The untold stories behind the great movie and television superheroes from the people who played them"--front cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Continuity and change; title: Part 1: Caped crusaders. Adam West: Batman; title: Bob Holiday: Sperman; title: Jackson Bostwick: Captain Marvel; title: Nicholas Hammond: Spider-Man; title: John Newton: Superboy; title: Matt Salinger: Captain America; title: John Wesley Shipp: The Flash; title: Kevin Conroy: Batman; title: Dean Cain: Superman; title: Tim Daly: Superman; title: James Marsden: Cyclops; title: Part 2: Heroic women. Yvonne Craig: Batgirl; title: Helen Slater: Supergirl; title: Malin Akerman: Silk Spectre; title: Part 3: Antiheores. Lou Ferrigno: The Hulk; title: Rex Smith: Daredevil; title: Chip Zien: Howard the Duck; title: Alan Cumming: Nightcrawler; title: Part 4: Sidekicks. Noel Neill: Lois Lane; title: Jack Larson: Jimmy Olsen; title: Marc McClure: Jimmy Olsen; title: Stacy Haiduk: Lois Lane; title: Part 5: Supervillains. Julie Newmar: Catwoman; title: Michael Rosenblum: Lex Luthor; title: Tom Hiddleston: Loki; title: Part 6: Heroes in hiding. Alex Hyde-White: Mister Fantastic; title: Carl Ciarfalio: The Thing; title: Joseph Culp: Doctor Doom; title: Rebecca Staab: Sue Storm; title: Adrianne Palicki: Wonder Woman; title: Part 7: Not all heroes are super. Leonard Nimy: Mister Spock; title: George Lazenby: James Bond; title: Roger Moore: James Bond; title: Clark Gregg: Agent Coulson; title: Part 8: Conversations about superheroes. Jim Simon; title: Stan Lee; title: Kenneth JOhnson; title: Tom Mankiewicz; title: Joe Quesada; title: Jon Favreau; title: Appendix: World's greatest heroes. The formative years; title: In the shadow of the Bat; title: The superhero boom.