>> 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.
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Date: 2014-05-15 10:33 pm (UTC)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.