This is the story of how comic book superheroes were brought to life in cinema, from Tim Burton's Batman films to The Avengers, Black Panther and beyond, and how they first took over Hollywood and then conquered the world.

Chris Claremont came to Marvel as a young man, and was assigned a book that no one else wanted, a book on the brink of cancellation: X-Men. Over the next 17 years, his work on the title turned it into the biggest franchise in comic b