9780465036561. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 416. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Contains: Illustrations. This first full-scale history of superhero comic books reveals how ambitious crooks and adolescent dreamers created a new art form and forever changed the entertainment business In the depths of the Depression out of bustling cities and crowded tenements the comic book superhero leapt into being. A strange collection of young men from working-class Jewish neighbourhoods and shady backgrounds transformed a mix of geekiness science fiction and outsider yearning into blue-eyed chisel-nosed crime-fighters and adventurers who quickly captured imaginations young and old. Within a few years their inventions had spawned a new genre in movies radio and television that still dominates youth entertainment seventy years later. Animated by the stories of some of the last century s most charismatic and conniving artists writers and businessmen Men of Tomorrow brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes gained their cultural power and established a crucial place in the modern imagination.