While superheroes currently dominate the American comic book market, readers of the 1930s had very different characters to keep them entertained. Between newspaper comic strips like Flash Gordon and masked heroes in magazines like Zorro, readers during the Great Depression turned to science fiction and adventure for escapism. In 1933, one of the greatest pre-Superman characters of all time was created, and he became nothing short of a sensation.More than forty years after this character’s debut, director Michael Anderson attempted to bring this pulp hero to the big screen. For inspiration, he drew from a story that Marvel had adapted to print just three years earlier. The resulting film may be one of the cheesiest comic book adaptations ever made, but it’s absolutely worth watching.While modern comic book heroes tend to fit neatly within the superhero genre, pulp heroes weren’t quite as pigeonholed. They appeared in dark fantasy, crime, science fiction, adventure, and war stories, all united by a shared goal of pure escapism. Made at the height of the Great Depression, these mags kept millions of Americans entertained during their downtime before TV came along. At a time of misery, poverty, social strife and looming war in Europe, these stories appealed to people from all walks of life.
While superheroes currently dominate the American comic book market, readers of the 1930s had very different characters to keep them entertained. Between newspaper comic strips like Flash Gordon and masked heroes in magazines like Zorro, readers during the Great Depression turned to science fiction and adventure for escapism. In 1933, one of the greatest pre-Superman characters of all time was created, and he became nothing short of a sensation.
More than forty years after this character’s debut, director Michael Anderson attempted to bring this pulp hero to the big screen. For inspiration, he drew from a story that Marvel had adapted to print just three years earlier. The resulting film may be one of the cheesiest comic book adaptations ever made, but it’s absolutely worth watching.
While modern comic book heroes tend to fit neatly within the superhero genre, pulp heroes weren’t quite as pigeonholed. They appeared in dark fantasy, crime, science fiction, adventure, and war stories, all united by a shared goal of pure escapism. Made at the height of the Great Depression, these mags kept millions of Americans entertained during their downtime before TV came along. At a time of misery, poverty, social strife and looming war in Europe, these stories appealed to people from all walks of life.
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