While superhero movies dominate Hollywood today, comics were once dominated by a different breed of hero before Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman for DC. Before 1938, print media thrived through the pulp magazine, America’s choice of entertainment during the Great Depression. Fifty-one years after a classic hero landed the cheesiest movie ever made, fans are still waiting for Shane Black to do him justice: Doc Savage.When Richard Donner made his first Superman movie in 1978, he helped mainstream the superhero genre in Hollywood, kicking off decades of comic adaptations. In hindsight, many fans of his take on DC’s Man of Steel hold it up as an example of the genre at its cheesiest, wearing its wholesomeness on its sleeve. However, just three years prior, the very character who inspired DC’s Kryptonian had his own movie, and it takes the cake with just how comical it was.As the medium grew, Savage’s DNA could be found in a wave of new characters, all using the same basic template he had perfected. A hero named Clark who resides in an Arctic-based hideout named the Fortress of Solitude, The Man of Bronze’s influence on Superman alone is clear as day. The original Marvel and DC writers and artists had, after all, spent years reading and writing the stories of the old pulps, the cheapest form of entertainment during America’s poorest era. Siegel and Shuster themselves were avid contributors to science fiction magazines and would have run in the same circles as Lester Dent.
While superhero movies dominate Hollywood today, comics were once dominated by a different breed of hero before Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman for DC. Before 1938, print media thrived through the pulp magazine, America’s choice of entertainment during the Great Depression. Fifty-one years after a classic hero landed the cheesiest movie ever made, fans are still waiting for Shane Black to do him justice: Doc Savage.
When Richard Donner made his first Superman movie in 1978, he helped mainstream the superhero genre in Hollywood, kicking off decades of comic adaptations. In hindsight, many fans of his take on DC’s Man of Steel hold it up as an example of the genre at its cheesiest, wearing its wholesomeness on its sleeve. However, just three years prior, the very character who inspired DC’s Kryptonian had his own movie, and it takes the cake with just how comical it was.
As the medium grew, Savage’s DNA could be found in a wave of new characters, all using the same basic template he had perfected. A hero named Clark who resides in an Arctic-based hideout named the Fortress of Solitude, The Man of Bronze’s influence on Superman alone is clear as day. The original Marvel and DC writers and artists had, after all, spent years reading and writing the stories of the old pulps, the cheapest form of entertainment during America’s poorest era. Siegel and Shuster themselves were avid contributors to science fiction magazines and would have run in the same circles as Lester Dent.
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