It didn’t take long for superheroes to become patriotic. It was less than two years from Superman in Action Comics #1 to The Shield in Pep Comics #1. And once comics started with characters dressed in the American flag, Americans started designing foreign characters around foreign flags or using the few things they knew about another country to create a character from there. Some worked and some didn’t.
What were the best? The worst? The laziest? The most offensive? What designs were better than the characters? What were missed opportunities?
Last week, we conversed about acts of defiance.
Next week, we’ll talk about Silver Surfer and Galactus (they’re gonna be in a movie, ya know?).