Superman Comic Book

Superman Returns Dept: Yet, for a septuagenarian, Kal-El of Krypton remains remarkably spry. It not just the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound that keeps him in shape. In the decades since the first Superman comic book appeared in 1938, writers have inserted him into political and social debates from the Second World War to Vietnam, from race relations to the war on terrorism. As a result, Superman political and cultural sensibilities have proved a lot more malleable, for better or worse, than you d expect from a man of steel, according to Winnipeg Free Press. As the nation emerged from the Great Depression, Superman went after those who would trample on the rights of honest working folks. He triggered a cave-in at a coal mine that trapped its wealthy owner underground, exposing unsafe working conditions. He terrorized a corrupt Washington power broker by tossing him around the Capitol dome like a rag doll. He torched an oil well, bankrupting its crooked stockholders. Artists often depicted him gazing past the horizon, burnished by the golden sunrise of a new day iconography straight out of a socialist mural and On April 18, Superman will turn 75. Although still faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive, he showing his age. Recent movie reboots of Batman and Spider-Man won Oscars and broke box-office records, but Superman Returns, released in 2006, sold fewer tickets than expected without managing to reinvent the hero. Hollywood is set to try again this year with Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe and Amy Adams. As conceived by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, Superman was an aggressive, even brutal, social reformer who could strong-arm the cruel and unjust without mussing up his Brylcreem. You see how effortlessly I crush this bar of iron in my hand? he snarled at one arms manufacturer. That bar could just as easily be your neck. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.