Welcome to the 923rd installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of this all-Iron Fist installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, learn which Golden Age superhero had his origin “borrowd” for Iron Fist’s origin. A truism about comic book history is that when one comic book company begins to have success with an idea, then the other companies try to follow suit with their own versions of that same idea. This isn’t even always just when comic book companies have successes, of course, as the same thing is true when movies or TV have hits, then comic book companies will often try to do comic book versions of those hit TV shows and/or movies. For a particularly notable (and amusing) example of this monkey-see/monkey-do behavior, look no further than the hit Andy Hardy films of the 1930s and 1940s about a “teen everyman” that turned Mickey Rooney into one of the world’s biggest movie stars in the world. So MLJ Comics then came out with its own version of Andy Hardy, Archie Andrews, and when Archie became a success, every other comic book company launched its own Archie knockoff.In the wake of Superman’s debut, and the realization that there was a big market out there for original superheroes, the comic book creators who were involved in the then-nascent American original comic book industry (which included Bill Everett) were pressed to create new superheroes. I did a legend about how Bill Everett’s mother even wrote to relatives asking if anyone had ideas for a superhero for Bill.
Welcome to the 923rd installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of this all-Iron Fist installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, learn which Golden Age superhero had his origin “borrowd” for Iron Fist’s origin.
A truism about comic book history is that when one comic book company begins to have success with an idea, then the other companies try to follow suit with their own versions of that same idea. This isn’t even always just when comic book companies have successes, of course, as the same thing is true when movies or TV have hits, then comic book companies will often try to do comic book versions of those hit TV shows and/or movies. For a particularly notable (and amusing) example of this monkey-see/monkey-do behavior, look no further than the hit Andy Hardy films of the 1930s and 1940s about a “teen everyman” that turned Mickey Rooney into one of the world’s biggest movie stars in the world. So MLJ Comics then came out with its own version of Andy Hardy, Archie Andrews, and when Archie became a success, every other comic book company launched its own Archie knockoff.
In the wake of Superman’s debut, and the realization that there was a big market out there for original superheroes, the comic book creators who were involved in the then-nascent American original comic book industry (which included Bill Everett) were pressed to create new superheroes. I did a legend about how Bill Everett’s mother even wrote to relatives asking if anyone had ideas for a superhero for Bill.
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