In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to February 1949 to see the comic book introduction of Superman’s famed Fortess of Solitude. A term that you will see me use CONSTANTLY (and rightly so, as it is an important one, it’s not like I’m just repeating it for no reason) is the idea of the “second generation” of comic book writers versus the “first generation.” The important distinction between the two is that the second generation of comic book writers GREW UP reading comic books, while the fist generation, the ones who CREATED the modern comic book industry, obviously couldn’t grow up on comic books because they were the ones CREATING them.As noted earlier, one of the biggest names in pulp fiction was Lester Dent, the writer of the popular Doc Savage pulp fiction stories. Clark “Doc” Savage, the Man of Bronze, was basically the epitome of a modern action hero. He was smart, he was a great detective, he had the best technology, and he was also essentially superhuman in terms of strength (not literally superhuman, but effectively). Jerry Siegel has long credited Doc Savage as a major influence on the creation of Superman.
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to February 1949 to see the comic book introduction of Superman’s famed Fortess of Solitude.
A term that you will see me use CONSTANTLY (and rightly so, as it is an important one, it’s not like I’m just repeating it for no reason) is the idea of the “second generation” of comic book writers versus the “first generation.” The important distinction between the two is that the second generation of comic book writers GREW UP reading comic books, while the fist generation, the ones who CREATED the modern comic book industry, obviously couldn’t grow up on comic books because they were the ones CREATING them.
As noted earlier, one of the biggest names in pulp fiction was Lester Dent, the writer of the popular Doc Savage pulp fiction stories. Clark “Doc” Savage, the Man of Bronze, was basically the epitome of a modern action hero. He was smart, he was a great detective, he had the best technology, and he was also essentially superhuman in terms of strength (not literally superhuman, but effectively). Jerry Siegel has long credited Doc Savage as a major influence on the creation of Superman.
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