How to Be a Superhero

How to Be a Superhero: The untold stories behind the great movie & television superheroes from the people who played them

How to Be a Superhero takes the reader behind the scenes of the most popular superhero movies and television shows of the past seventy years. The book includes 35 penetrating interviews with actors and actresses who have played the world's greatest superheroes, supervillains, antiheroes and sidekicks, as well as 70 photographs.   A must-read for any superhero fan!

To be, as Chris Reeve put it, 'a temporary custodian' of these stories (myths really) is a very subjective experience. To be taken into the minds and thought processes of others who have had that experience is a fascinating journey. How to Be a Superhero really takes you into what it means not only to the people who play them, but into the minds of superheroes."
  - Richard Donner, director Superman

Mark Edlitz's How To Be A Superhero delivers rare insights into the mindset of the men and women behind the world's most beloved heroes and villains. A supremely fun read."
- David Hayter, screenwriter of X-Men, X-Men 2 and Watchmen

"Edlitz's impressive knowledge of not just superhero movies and TV shows, but of the comics that they're based on, enables him to ask incisive questions that get the actors talking about their super-roles in a way not many interviewers can do. The book is a unique take on the superhero phenomenon."
- Danny Fingeroth, author of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Our Society
"How to Be a Superhero perfectly captures the convergence of fantasy and reality by documenting--for the first time ever--the thoughts and feelings of so many of the actors who, by their portrayal, have brought these fabled characters to life."
-- Arlen Schumer, author of New York Times pick The Silver Age of Comic Book Art