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Index
Cover Page
Praise
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
I Want To Believe
Part I
Chapter 1: Look, Up In The Sky
Invocation
Decline And Fall
Chapter 2: Kingdom Come
The Hero As Messiah
Hollywood Homegrown Heroes
Chapter 3: The Cult Of The Superhero
Part II
Chapter 4: Dawn Of The Gods
Sumer And Egypt
Greece And Rome
People Of The Book
The Norse Sagas
Chapter 5: An Empire Of The Mind
The Fruits Of Empire
The Radicals
Spiritualism
Chapter 6: Secret Sects
The Rosicrucians
Freemasonry
Other Christs
Chapter 7: The Victorian Occult Explosion
The Coming Race: Edward Bulwer-Lytton And Vril
Madame Blavatsky And Theosophy
The Golden Dawn
Chapter 8: Occult Superstars
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aleister Crowley
Harry Houdini
Edgar Cayce
Part III
Chapter 9: Literary Luminaries
Edgar Allan Poe
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells
Bram Stoker
Chapter 10: The Pulps
Hard-Boiled
Tarzan
Gladiators: The Pulp Superheroes
Amazing Stories
Weird Tales
Chapter 11: Raconteurs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sax Rohmer
H. P. Lovecraft
Robert E. Howard
Dion Fortune
Jack Parsons: Rocketman
Part IV
Chapter 12: Famous Funnies
High Adventure
Dirty Dealings
Founding Fathers
Chapter 13: Who Will Save Us?
Magic Men
Mandrake The Magician
Doctor Occult
Chapter 14: The Messiahs
Superman
Captain Marvel
Captain Clones
Super-Horus: Hawkman And The Falcon
Captain America
Chapter 15: The Silver Age Science Heroes
The Pornography Of Violence
Seduction
The Code
The Silver Age
Spider-Man
The Silver Surfer
Chapter 16: The Golems
Batman
Dark Knight: The God Of Vengeance
Bat-Clones
Kirby'S Rage: The Thing And The Hulk
Death Dealers
Chapter 17: The Amazons
Wonder Woman
And Others Just Like Her
The Complex Elektra
Chapter 18: The Brotherhoods
Teen Teams: The Legion And The Titans
The Fantastic Four
The X-Men
The Illuminati
Chapter 19: Wizards Redux
Ibis The Invincible
Doctor Fate
Doctor Strange
Constantine
Mad Scientists
Part V
Chapter 20: The Visionaries
Jack Kirby
Steve Englehart
Alan Moore
Neil Gaiman
Grant Morrison
Mike Mignola
Alex Ross
Chapter 21: The Dream Lab: Comics And The Future
Chapter 22: Conclusion: The Gods Within Us
Spirit In The Sky
Bibliography
Index
About The Author
About The Illustrator
To Our Reader
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