Throughout history, America fought several battles amongst other countries, and also within itself. Whether it is the issue of socioeconomic status, race, or religion, America has continued to fight for whatever is right. This paper examines the idea that Superheroes symbolize power, persistence, and change of America when considering the American dream. Although superheroes were not around until the 1930's when America was initially identified as a world power, they continue to play an important part in American society today. Superheroes are advocates for American justice while they symbolize the importance of American power and the American dream. .
In June of 1938, two young men from Cleveland, Ohio produced the first ever comic book character known as Superman. Strong physically and mentally, Superman became the, "First crusader for social justice in the world." (Carter, 2010). In the late 1930's, America was continuously suffering greatly from the stock market crash of 1929. With no money being earned, American people stopped spending. Lack of economic circulation combined with international instability from unpaid war debts after world war one were only a few examples of what caused the economy to come to a screeching halt. In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States of America and introduced the states to a New Deal (replacing the square deal) that ultimately encouraged government spending in order to get the American economy back up and rolling. It is evident that America is ever changing. As these events are unraveling, Superman emerges into the lives of American people. Superman is large and muscular, brave and strong, and fears no one. Being the first character to fight for social justice, Superman symbolizes power of the American people and the American dream. At the time, there was such an enormous difference in social classes, and Superman was there to tear these down in every volume.
Some deal with contemporary American life; some are condensations of literary classics; still others are adventure stories. ... Big companies like Marvel, DC, and Image comics rule the business. ... An example is the DC vs. ... DC vs. ... Ex-Marvel and DC artists and writers founded Image Comics. ...
Comics, we all love them. ... The difference between Superman and Batman was that although Batman had no super powers unlike his counterpart, the Batman stories were more exciting. ... On November 20, 1939, Max Gaines, now at DC Comics, published a comic featuring the first appearances of The Flash, "the fastest man alive." ... A few years later, in 1971, the comics code was adapted to allow horror comics, and thus began a new era. ... They became more story-oriented, and thus more popular. ...
However, unlike comics, graphic novels aren't all typically funny. The major differences between comics and graphic novels is that they are longer, and comics can cover stories over the course of many issues while graphic novels are just one or two books (Difference Between Comic Books and Graphic Novels, knowledgenuts.com). ... From there entire magazines for comics and superhero stories were made. Then these became book-length collections of previously published comics. ... Examples of these are Marvel and DC, with superheroes Batman or Spiderman. ...
Many folks believed that this was the savior of not only the character Batman, but for DC films as a whole. ... Ever since, Marvel has been reigning in the success of their superhero movies with little competition from their main adversary, DC Comics, whose only successful superhero have been the Dark Knight films. ... Another complaint is that there was little to no story or character development, most of the story being composed of drawn out and ludicrous action sequences, slow motion shots and severely desaturated film coloring. ... To fans, it was obvious that DC was trying to copy Marvel...
The stories and themes were mostly about children and their pet's many adventures. ... Three types of adventures emerged, the science fiction, detective stories, and jungle adventures. ... Sadly, they sold the rights of Superman to DC Comics in the 40's and never gained the amount of profits that Superman has garnered through the decades. ... He reported that comics showed them how to commit crimes and gave them a view of violence and sex that were depicted in comics as something to desire. ... Because their efforts at self-censorship were ineffective, the publishers created...
DC dares to create one such line of comics called Vertigo that peaks the imagination, desires, and fears of the adult reader. ... You can read them for only the story as children do, but upon taking a closer look, you"ll see the poetry in the pictures. Bravery is at hand in the Sandman comics simply by addressing the issues of Dreams, Death, and Delirium, but it takes brilliant artists to shape it into such a powerful portrayal of those things we most fear. ...
Based on the DC comics character "BATMAN", The Dark Knight is a superhero film directed, co-written and produced by talented English-American director Christopher Nolan. ... However as the story progresses, Harvey stakes his life giving in to the demands of the joker, reveals himself as the dark knight. ...
