Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York World's Fair nearly every day is dedicated to something or somebody. Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead have lately had their days; soon Rudy Vallee, Superman, Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund will have theirs. One day last week it was Philippa Duke Schuyler Day. Dayspring was a bright-eyed, coffee-colored child, not quite nine, who for four years has been an egregious U. S. prodigy (TIME, June...
...peak and most furious pitch of his book is reached in the life of Schlessing, a gross, uncontrollably brilliant Viennese financier, seducer, Superman, whose power is built on blackmail and near-diabolism. This story, like most others in the book, shows a virtuosity in action narrative that few detective story writers could match; its significance is that Schlessing, the tenth character, and The Pale One, the first, are the two spiritual poles of Jewry...
...Chicago Times' Lucas, all credit for a fine job of listening. But only Superman could out-listen CBS and Princeton, whose big Listening Post staffs are on the job as much as 19 hours a day, seven days a week...
Because comic strip hero Superman recently spread pacifist propaganda in the trenches, singlehanded attempted to destroy the Westwall and all its works, Das Schwarze Korps (organ of the Nazi SS Guards) stormed, "Instead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, injustice, laziness and crime. ... It is pitiful that American children . . . don't even recognize the poison...
First issue of the Tribune, subtitled "The People's Paper," ran to 32 pages. Next day it settled down to 16 pages, one afternoon appeared with a scant ten. Inside were plenty of robust comics (Superman, Charlie Chan. Tarzan), such columnists as Eleanor Roosevelt. Raymond Clapper, Hugh Johnson...