Top Five is a feature where I count down the top five of something comic book-related. This time around, we’re looking at the most apocrypal superhero meetings with Christopher Columbus.As you might imagine, comic books have not always been the best source of historical facts for little kids, and few figures in history have had quite as many apocryphal stories told about them than Christopher Columbus (much of what many of us grew up being taught as the true story of Columbus was Washington Irving’s 1828 historical FICTION, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, which, well, as shown in the term “historical fiction,” was a work of fiction, and yet it was the basis for most historical understandings of Columbus’ life in the United States for many years, pretty much into the mid-20th Century, and obviously, it had a last impact beyond that.In a delightful story in 1949’s Adventure Comics #137 by Otto Binder and Charles Sultan, DC’s answer to the Flash (this was before DC then owned the Flash, although by 1949, DC did own the Flash, but Johnny Quick kept his own regular feature, as well), Johnny Quick, finds himself traveling through time to make historical records of a number of significant events in history (the “Why” he is doing it is pretty goofy, as a fire destroyed the archival film history of the company that Johnny works for, so he figures he’ll replace it with even BETTER archival films, films of moments in history from way before film even EXISTED!).
Top Five is a feature where I count down the top five of something comic book-related. This time around, we’re looking at the most apocrypal superhero meetings with Christopher Columbus.
As you might imagine, comic books have not always been the best source of historical facts for little kids, and few figures in history have had quite as many apocryphal stories told about them than Christopher Columbus (much of what many of us grew up being taught as the true story of Columbus was Washington Irving’s 1828 historical FICTION, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, which, well, as shown in the term “historical fiction,” was a work of fiction, and yet it was the basis for most historical understandings of Columbus’ life in the United States for many years, pretty much into the mid-20th Century, and obviously, it had a last impact beyond that.
In a delightful story in 1949’s Adventure Comics #137 by Otto Binder and Charles Sultan, DC’s answer to the Flash (this was before DC then owned the Flash, although by 1949, DC did own the Flash, but Johnny Quick kept his own regular feature, as well), Johnny Quick, finds himself traveling through time to make historical records of a number of significant events in history (the “Why” he is doing it is pretty goofy, as a fire destroyed the archival film history of the company that Johnny works for, so he figures he’ll replace it with even BETTER archival films, films of moments in history from way before film even EXISTED!).
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