>> Superhero comics started out with broken ethnic misrepresentation as part of the melting pot and the whitewashing afterwards. A couple of Jewish guys hopped up on Doc Savage novels come up with Superman; a Jewish guy creates The Spirit; Jacob Kurtzberg basically makes Marvel what it is. <<

Maybe people's fantasies have changed. Some disadvantaged folks want to imagine belonging to advantaged groups, after all. Others want to imagine that people like themselves can be heroes too.