Thank you, I was about to point out that the entire planet of Krypton had to die to 'make' Superman, as Uncle Ben had to do to make Spiderman, but in truth,...
In the original concept, Krypton's destruction was pretty much in the abstract. Like telling an adopted child his "real" parents died when he was very young....
And Ben Parker's death consisted of what, appearances in three or four panels? We didn't grieve for the loss of Ben Parker, we felt and related to the impact...
Well said. I want to add one thing. Nothing in Clark's life, in any version of the character, directly pointed to fis fighting crime. Frankly, he does that...
Yes... But in Batman/Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne became a dark warrior of the night due to the violent robbery/murders of his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne at...
Ah, now Batman is trauma personified. He still has nightmares of that tragic night. Without them he is less driven. But this didn't really kick in as a...
Okay... I see Batman as a Hero, despite his personal darkness... Having your parents shot in front of you is traumatic enough, and getting over it is hard...
No, Batman went on and studied and trained because he NEVER GO OVER IT. Batman is the original comic book Anti-hero, at least in his current incarnation (or...
I never said he did get over it... If you got the idea he did, I'm sorry... I've been busy making a meal and I had a lot of running around doing things while...
You are giving Wertham too much credit. Batman was "toned down" years before Wertham showed up. By the time Robin came on the scene in 1940, [I think that is...
I give Wertham NO credit, what so ever... Batman had been toned down years before the middle fifties and the blasphemous tome Seduction Of The Innocent... It...
No, I don't exactly think so. It was those parents who told him he had abilities and he should use them for the greater good of mankind. They were his...
I've often felt this about Batman!! "Get over it already." People have witnessed and endured the deaths of their parents and family members in tragic...
I've often felt that the writer and/or artist who views the red mask of Spiderman literally views him as a different character from Peter Parker, with all the...
Well, I am in the Wolverine State. I like Wolverine, too. Anti-heroes or basically people who commit acts of heroism, but also work outside the normal...
Poor little Wertham just got blamed for everything, didnt he? Just trying to help, the little guy was. I got the Best of Batman, 40s, 50s and 60s and there was...
Wertham by himself was just one putz. It was the era that spawned him that really put the industry in a coma. Everybody was seeing commies under every bed....
The whole definition of 'anti-hero' is what is muddled, as well as the idea that as soon as the police show up, they are going to want to arrest a masked...
Good thing we don't have that today about Ernie and Bert on Sesame Street, Fred and Barney promoting transvestism with their animal skins or a teletubbie in...
Generally to focus on one person or one image (Wertham, McCarthy, Donna Reed, June Cleaver, etc.) just makes it easier to scoff at an era or a generation so we...
Wertham wrote the book when he was almost sixty, hardly a spawn of the communist fearing decade. With all the reading I used to do on Albert Fish, I was...
Did you know that some of the writers of Bewitched were in prison during the show because of the HUAC? Comic writers were well advised to be afraid (be very...
"Next case!" "Bailif, read the charges." "Yes your Honor. Suspect is charged with five counts of child endangerment, 213 counts of assault and battery, 765...
McCarthy was toppled and died in 1957. Bewitched premiered in 1964. Sounds like the Japanese soldier on Gilligan's Island to me. Comic book writers were told...
McCarthy was dead, but not his evil henchmen. And the people who went to jail didn't get cut loose with McCarthy's death. It took years for the victims of...
McCarthy, evil henchmen, Bewitched, pot smokers, commies. This has WHAT to do with Wertham? Wertham didn't write the silly book for any glory, he was already...
Oh well, you're welcome. I love saying what needs to be said and delivering it for the masses to read, learn from and enjoy and hopefully gain a little wisdom....
