Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (Part 6 Of 9)

[jmen4ever]

While I loved Adams early 70s art, Oneals GL/GA, floped as big as the lee/busema surfer.Give me the old Kane GL anyday.

[NewPhoenixFilms]

ironic how long ago the govt. was against the comics, but in the counterculture era, the govt. asked for a story of drugs which is prohibited under the comics code.

[MyTubeVersion3]

RIP Christopher Reeve

[MyTubeVersion3]

The Night Gwen Stacy Died was the first comic I read that featured GreenGoblin AAHHH what a nostalgia!!

[Kkyyrruu]

Ah~, Speedy was a druggy. Isn't that kind of like Irony, you know with his name and all lol. J/k

[lacthewatcher1]

Superman is literally invulnerable, no matter how many people will say, "Superman SUCKS. how can I relate to a guy who has got all these superpowers?!!?!?!?" There will always be people who love in him, who understand him, and won't give up on him.

[grumpytosnowwhite]

@lacthewatcher1 Well, people's opinion of him seems to go in cycles...after the anti-hero overload in the '90s, someone who was just a decent guy was actually a change from the norm. Plus, he's nowhere near as ridiculously omnipotent now as he was back in the '60s and 70s. It's just a matter of finding ways to tell a good story.

[BlackArrow68]

@grumpytosnowwhite I agree superman in the 60's was kind of crazy but on the other hand he was super. He has not been super since the silver age. Now I am not saying we should go back to the 60's but we should give him more power.

[grumpytosnowwhite]

@BlackArrow68 Hmf...I like him better when he's not as high-powered — makes his fights a lot more interesting to read. Anyway, they have powered him up a bit since the end of the '90s — he can run around in space without breathing now :D

[theshadow1932]

@BlackArrow68 Yes. Superman in the Silver Age really epitomized the American ethic; the future was going to be better than the present because WE, through the application of our own intelligence, effort and good will were going to MAKE it so. This idea faded with the lessening of Mort Weisingers' influence, after 1967 and, with the unfortunate, concurrent emergence of Neal Adams' brutal approach. These two events constituted a brutal "one, two punch" from which DC has never quite recovered.

[BlackArrow68]

@grumpytosnowwhite I agree superman in the 60's was kind of crazy but on the other hand he was super. He has not been super since the silver age. Now I am not saying we should go back to the 60's but we should give him more power.

[Whillikersify]

@lacthewatcher1 That was kinda the genius of the revamp: how do you relate to someone that powerful? Well you can't. So you don't relate to Superman, you relate to Clark Kent, since he's the "real" identity. (in the Silver Age, they had it the other way around, with Clark Kent being a facade and Superman being the real person...which was kinda boring and a tad mean.)

[Jcolinsol]

@lacthewatcher1

I was big into Superman when I was around 4, so i think you can see why Superman is relevant right there. As an infant you are totally helpless and dependent. Superman is a big powerful baby, little boy blue, he acts out the fetal drama, as an all powerful infant who saves the helpless.

[neunerx]

@Jcolinsol

Fetal drama? What the hell are you taking about?

[Jcolinsol]

@neunerx

It's a psychological theory, like the oedipal drama.

It's been shown that if a pregnant mother is subjected to stress, drinks does drugs or alcohol, or is physically assaulted, there is a great reduction in the oxygen content of the blood, so that the fetus struggles against the placenta to breathe. This is thought to be the origin of many vampiric myths, as well as a basis for super-heroic character types, saving the helpless so that they can breathe.

[neunerx]

@Jcolinsol

Oh, of course.