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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER** **What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human** ** ** Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men—the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams. *But what are they trying to tell us? *For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero. ** **Now with a new Afterword.** **