That title refers to a YouTube video (published Sept 29, 2026) that covers the occult and mythological roots of comic book heroes — the same theme explored in the 2007 book Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes by Christopher Knowles (illustrated by Joe Linsner).
Key claims from that lineage of work:
- Doctor Occult, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1935 (predating Superman), is cited as the clearest occult progenitor of the modern superhero; Superman’s home planet “Krypton” derives from the Greek kryptos (“hidden”).
- Lex Luthor is argued to bear a strong resemblance to occultist Aleister Crowley, and Captain Marvel is linked to ancient Sun gods.
- The book identifies four superhero archetypes — the Messiah, the Golem, the Amazon, and the Brotherhood — and traces the influence of Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy, the Golden Dawn, and the early 20th-century occult Bohemian underground on the birth of comics.
- Later occult-heavy comics are tied to writers like Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Neil Gaiman (Sandman, The Invisibles, Saga of the Swamp Thing).
If you meant a specific book, lecture, or podcast by that exact title rather than the video, let me know and I can dig into that.
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