Superheroes are ubiquitous in today’s world: they are everywhere, from comics to movie franchises, from commercials to video games. Children dress up like them, adults enjoy watching or reading about their struggle to defeat evil and let good triumph. 

The American superhero is a modern product. Many of them were created after the end of the Second World War, as an artistic answer to people’s fear of uncontrollable evil taking the world by storm another time: it was, somehow, reassuring to think there was someone invincible on our side.