Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, X-Men - who doesn't know them? Superheroes have long been firmly established on the film and television screens, in our video games and in our dreams. But what exactly are they trying to tell us? Grant Morrison, one of the classics of the modern graphic novel (Batman: Arkham Asylum, US3, All Stars Superman), sees in superheroes powerful archetypes with the help of which a person explains to himself what happened to us in the past, and what lies ahead in the future, and what it is like to be human. Morrison knows the history of the genre like no one else, and from the inside; Told with unrelenting passion, from the basics to the latest film incarnations, he offers us the first in-depth exploration of the great modern myth - the myth of the superhero. The book contains obscene language.