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COMIC BOOKS were written for escapists. You had to be willing to go more than half-way to sweat through Superman's struggle with Dr. Galiogne stretched over four issues, or The Masked Marvel's duel to the death with The Incredible Hydro-Man. But once you were there, they never let you down and the heroes of these super-worlds were soon embedded in America's collective imagery...
...pocket, stopwatch in hand. The technician. Authoritarian, McCurdy stood next to him in his grey sweatsuit, sweating. He had a beard on his face. For a Harvard fan, the contrast was easily categorized. They were crew coaches Joe Burk and Harry Parker, or even the scheming Lex Luther and Superman, who stood for truth, justice, and maybe even the American...
...undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races in Newport, Mrs. David Rockefeller Jr. wore a gold Superman tank top; Brooke Hayward, Jill St. John and Raquel Welch (with an explosive "POW" on her version) are into the undershirt scene...
...most popular-if least socially significant-of all the shirts are those featuring Batman or Superman emblems, or one of a host of cartoon characters that include Porky Pig, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck (who is smoking a joint), Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. There is even a superman undershirt dress, which the wearer can presumably don in the nearest available phone booth...
...movement did not originate solely with Superman. Buck Rogers, Frankenstein, or even H. G. Wells. A great wealth of horrifying supernatural material has always filled the world's myths. Sigmund Freud, because he raised the unconscious to the conscious level, may well be the seminal figure. Of course any Science Fiction worth its metaphysical salt extends outward to the blackest realms of the universe where our planet is lost among other planets, and our galaxy among other galaxies. But Science Fiction is also a voyage inward to the realm of the unconscious where identities merge into the one-ness...