The Hollywood blockbuster season is heating up and so is a series of superhero movies. 好萊塢賣座鉅片的時節正如火如荼地展開，一系列的超級英雄電影也陸續推出。
And we'll be looking at the superhero trend all this week on CNN. CNN 將以本週一整週的時間檢視超級英雄熱潮。
And first up is the franchise that perhaps started it all -- Superman. 首先出場的是，也許是當初最早掀起超級英雄風潮的系列電影，超人。
Now, the latest installment, Man of Steel, debuts in New York on Monday. 最新的超人電影《超人：鋼鐵英雄》週一於紐約首映。
And Neil Curry looks at why comic book heroes are just so popular. 尼爾．科瑞探究了漫畫英雄為何如此受歡迎。
Comic book heroes, our fascination with them can begin from a very early age and can last a lifetime. 漫畫英雄，我們對他們的著迷可能從年紀很小就開始，而且還可能持續一輩子。
The thing about superhero stories, they're like fairy tales for grown-ups. 超級英雄故事吸引人的地方，在於他們就像是給大人看的童話故事一樣。
Every child loved reading fairy tales when he or she was a child. They were stories about monsters and witches and giants and magicians. 每個孩子小時候都喜歡閱讀童話故事，也就是關於怪獸、巫婆、巨人與魔法師的故事。
Well, superhero stories have that same flavor, but they're done for adults as well as for children. 超級英雄故事也帶有同樣的趣味，但是針對成人而做，大人小孩通吃。
The characters he helped to create for Marvel Comics more than half a century ago have stood the test of time. 他在半個多世紀以前幫漫威漫畫創造的人物已通過了時間的考驗。
He's the prime reason this person is dressed like this. 這個人之所以穿成這樣，主要就是因為他。
I picked Spider-Man, because I've always been a fan of Spider-Man. 我選蜘蛛人，因為我向來都是蜘蛛人的粉絲。
He's a real guy, like, you know, he's got problems like everyone else does. 他是個貼近真實的人物，和每個人一樣有麻煩。
And, you know, he has to deal with it all and being a superhero at the same time. 他必須處理所有的問題，還同時要當個超級英雄。
If, as has been said, clothes make the man, then presumably superhero clothes make the Superman, or at least the Iron Man. 俗話說「人要衣裝」，如果這句話真的沒錯，那麼想必超級英雄服裝造就了超人，至少鋼鐵人就是如此。
How long did it take you to do this costume? 你花了多少時間製作這套服裝？
About approximately 300 hours added together. 總共大約三百小時。
Everything goes beyond just the comic book now, 現在，一切都超越漫畫書了，
because it's not just a book, it's a comic book that's tied in with a video game, that's tied in with a movie, and it broadens the reach. 因為漫畫已經不再只是一本書，而是漫畫書搭配電玩遊戲，又搭配電影，接觸的範圍更廣。
Thousands of people, they are exposed to comic books through movies, as opposed to through comic books to the movies; it's going the other way. 成千上萬的民眾都是透過電影接觸到漫畫書，而不是透過漫畫書接觸電影；方向是相反的。
They enjoy the movie, then they get the comic book. 他們喜歡電影，然後才去買漫畫書。
Comic book sales in North America alone were close to half a billion dollars last year. 去年漫畫書單是在北美洲的銷售額即接近五億美元。
So far this year, they're up almost 20 percent. 今年截至目前為止，就已經增加將近百分之二十了。
A comic book is essentially a movie with an unlimited budget. 漫畫書基本上就是一部擁有無限預算的電影。
It's a place where you level the playing field, where a creator just with a pencil and pen 漫畫的世界是個條件平等的競爭場，因為創作者只要有鉛筆和畫筆，
can kind of create worlds imaginable, destroy those worlds and recreate them in three pages. 就能夠在三頁的篇幅裡創造想像得到的世界、摧毀這些世界，然後再重新創造這些世界。
At the other end of the playing field stand the movie makers, armed with $100 million budgets. 在這個競爭場的另一端，則站著握有上億美元預算的電影製作人員。
Their pen and pencils replaced by [a] sophisticated team of special effects. 他們的畫筆與鉛筆被精妙的特效團隊取代。
They, too, can create, destroy, and recreate worlds, not in three pages but in 3-D. 特效人員同樣也能夠創造、摧毀再重新創造世界，但並非在三頁的篇幅裡，而是用立體影像。
I think Marvel Comics in general, you know, they're just... they're telling stories of, you know, kings and betrayal and, you know, they're the grandest soaps there are. 我認為，漫威漫畫大致上就是……他們述說的故事就是國王與背叛的故事，堪稱是最宏偉的肥皂劇。
The Avengers is the third-biggest film of all time, $1.5 billion worldwide. 《復仇者聯盟》是史上賣座排名第三的電影，全世界票房達十五億美元。
And Iron Man 3 is probably gonna be the fourth-biggest film of all time, around about $1.3 billion worldwide. 《鋼鐵人3》可能會成為史上第四賣座的電影，全世界票房約十三億美元。
And I think Man of Steel has the potential to outdo maybe both of them. I think the saturation point is some way away yet. 我認為《超人：鋼鐵英雄》有潛力超越這兩部片。我認為飽和點還沒出現。
It depends on the cleverness of the filmmakers. 重點在於拍片者的聰明巧妙。
I think the innovation that we see and the degree to which people continue to up the stakes, change it up, use different approaches, 我認為我們現在看到的創新，還有大家不斷加碼投入、變化元素、採用不同方式的程度，
there's always going to be another superhero movie. 超級英雄電影一定會繼續出現。
And he's not wrong. In this case, the superhero in question is this fellow. 而且他說得沒錯。在此例中，所謂的超級英雄就是這位仁兄。
My father believed if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me. 我父親認為如果世人發現了我的真實身分，他們會排擠我。
Seventy-five years after D.C. Comics introduced Superman to the world, he's being reintroduced to movie audiences as Man of Steel. 在 DC 漫畫把超人帶來世間的七十五年後，他又再次以《超人：鋼鐵英雄》重新呈現在電影觀眾面前。
I think the superhero genre is so popular today, because quite simply this is the new mythology for us. 我認為超級英雄文類在當今會這麼受歡迎，原因很簡單，因為這是我們的新神話。
They... these people, superheroes, are our Greek gods, they're our Roman gods. And they're just very, very cool. 他們……這些人，超級英雄們，是我們的希臘神祇，是我們的羅馬神明，而且他們就是非常、非常酷。
So the gods smile, a printing press rolls, and a new superhero adventure will soon be delivered to our doors and comic stores. 神明微微一笑，印刷機開始滾動，然後一場新的超級英雄冒險不久就會被送到我們的家門和漫畫書店。