Today marks the first Hero of the Week post, as the MOTW posts are taking a bit of a sabbatical for maybe two years. Naturally, we will start with the first true superhero- Superman. Sure, he wasn't the first strongman hero, or the first invulnerable hero, or even the first hero with a costume. But he was the one who combined all of those and more into one amazing hero. DC Comics sure did not see that exploding like it did in 1938. They also got it for a steal, literally, from writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, which is another story that has been well documented. He really is a great hero, but lazy writers don't always get him. I always figured he was Clark, and Superman was his fake ID. Some creators go the other direction. He needs attention to what he can and cannot do, and in the 50s and 60s they added more and more powers to the point of absurdity. I mean, super-ventriloquism?
He is great though.
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