Guinness World Records 2018

ON A SLACKLINE France’s Lucas Milliard took just 1 min 59.73 sec to navigate a 100-m-long slackline at an event staged by Hailuo ...

Circus Performers SUPERHUMANS World Circus Day is celebrated on the third Saturday of April each year. It was established in 201 ...

SUPERHUMANS LONGEST CAREER AS A RINGMASTER Norman Barrett (UK) first became master of ceremonies for Robert Brothers Circus in t ...

LONGEST-LASTING HIP REPLACEMENT As of 19 Nov 2015, the hip replacement belonging to Norman Sharp (UK) had lasted 67 years 113 da ...

defect ectopia cordis, in which the heart lies outside the body. Most patients do not live beyond 48 hr. Youngest recipient of t ...

1–50 m 50 m–5 km Anthony Victor (IND) has hair sprouting from the centre of his outer ears (middle of the pinna) that measures 1 ...

5–200 k m 200 km Mnogo Mebeli (RUS) constructed a sofa measuring 1,006.61 m (3,302 ft 6 in) in Saratov, Russia, on 25 Jul 2014 ...

SUPERHEROES Brad keeps his Dark Knight collection in his basement “bat museum”. Among his favourite items are a copy of Batman V ...

CONTENTS Superheroes Timeline .............^90 Comic Books^...................... 92 On Screen^......................... 94 Vide ...

1940–41 Superheroes Timeline SUPERLATIVES There are plenty of “superhumans” in GWR 2018 including many ordinary people who have ...

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s first co-production, The Fantastic Four #1 hit the shelves in Nov They were Marvel’s first superteam ...

FIRST COMIC-STRIP SUPERHERO The^ Phantom, aka “the ghost who walks”, was created by US cartoonist Lee Falk and first made an app ...

LARGEST PUBLISHER OF COMICS (CURRENT) Marvel (USA) had a larger market share than any comic publisher at the end of 2015, claimi ...

FIRST SUPERHERO MOVIE It is possible to credit the earliest cinematic superhero if the term “superhero” is narrowly defined. Not ...

HIGHEST-GROSSING SUPERHERO MOVIE The most successful superhero movie at the international box office is Marvel’s The Avengers (U ...

MOST OFFICIAL SUPERHERO COSTUMES IN A VIDEOGAME As of 14^ Mar 2017, US-based developer Gazillion Entertainment had released 462 ...

BEST-SELLING SUPERHERO VIDEOGAME LEGO® Batman: The Videogame (Traveller’s Tales, 2 008) had sold 13.45^ million copies across al ...

LARGEST COSPLAY COSTUME (SINGLE PERSON) Designed and built by Thomas DePetrillo (USA), the Iron Man Hulkbuster is 9 ft 6^ in (2. ...

MOST PEOPLE DRESSED AS SUPERHEROES IN 24 HOURS (MULTIPLE VENUES) On 18^ Apr 2015, over the course of 24 hr, a total of 2,003 peo ...

KAPOW! Comic-book expert Rob Cave presents his rundown of superhero superlatives. Watch the forces of good and evil face off aga ...