[adam_az]

That is completely insane.

"Red Son also demonstrates that there is a deep affinity between the aesthetics of superheroes and traditional socialist realism."

That was the first thing that came to mind - all that bad commie artwork extolling the "worker."

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the hero of the comrade worker proletariat! And his cute girlfriend and Pravda journalist, Lubyana Laneskovich!(barf)

What next, a blonde Nazi version called Ubermensch?

[weegee]

"Months ago we know mine is unsafe," Kober says. "But when we tell boss's foreman they say: 'No like job, Stanislaw? Quit!' "

I'll be that the Socialist Superman character doesn't speak in cliched Yakov Smirnoff broken English.

And why would he assume the name "Clark Kent" if he were living in the Soviet Union? Why not Mikalov Ratinski (~Mickey Rat)?

[weegee]

Reprinted by DC Comics in a series called the Superman Archives, these early stories show Superman as a crime fighter with a distinct political conscience. He is seen fighting against a wife-beater, a lynch mob, two munitions manufacturers, some war-crazed military dictators, a drunk driver and a gangster who tries to take over a labour union.

Liberal Politics?

A wife-beater, I guess that conservatives are still beating their wives.

A lynch mob, I guess they never heard of the lynching the unions did in the 1930s. Don't cross that picket line.

Some munititons manufacturers, there must be more to the story about why Supes took them on.

Some war-crazed military dictators, yeah and after WWII we took on Stalin who killed more of his nation's people than Hitler killed in his death camps. Meanwhile the socialists in America saw no evil empire in Stalin's rule.

A drunk driver, too early to be Teddy Kennedy.

A gangster who tries to take over a labo(u)r union, now that strains the limits of credibility. How about we make it DNC thugs instead.

[weegee]

[weegee]

So far this comic book year, Supes went commie, the Rawhide Kid went gay, and the Super Soldier formula that was originally thought to have been first tested on a white guy (who became Captain America) was actually secretly tested on black men first.

Keep trashing our heroes.

[Slings and Arrows]

Superman goes Communist

It's been done.

[Mad Dawgg]

"What next, a blonde Nazi version called Ubermensch?"

FYI there is a Short Story titled Ubermensch and it deals with the idea that Superman fell to earth in Germany in the 30's rather than America.

Wasn't a bad read!

[fat city]

Sounds like more Stalinist revisionism. Unless its really Bizarro in Bizarro World where, of course, Soviet Russia would be the reigning superpower.

[weegee]

The above article by this socialist was pure projection and BUNK.

"Superman" as originally envisioned by Siegel and Schuster (possibly pre-stock market crash) was a character on a whole planet of super beings. They wrote to a fanzine and received a response from SF author Jack Williamson who suggested that they place their "super man" among a race of normal bodied beings.

I think that they then positioned Superman as a villian (these were merely text stories).

Superman

Superman's early development was awkward. Siegel first used the name in 1933 for a science fiction story titled, “The Reign of Superman,” with illustrations by Schuster. Inspired by the German philosopher Nietzsche, Siegel's first Superman was an evil mastermind with advanced mental powers. Unfortunately, the text of this story has been lost to history. After Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 and proceeded to distort Nietzsche's concept of Superman, Siegel and Shuster decided to rethink their own concept of Superman's character

"The Reign Of Superman" may be extremely rare but Nicholas Cage auction off a copy last year.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

I love the smell of Kryptonite in the morning. . . it's the smell of Victory!!

[Tailgunner Joe]