Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche's superman or the Superman of the comic books. It is a super-animal...
Friedrich, the author of "The New Belief in the Common Man", has entitled his talk "Man, Superman, and Common...
...While Superman represents the outer limits of fantasy in the current crop of radio thrillers for the kiddies, Captain Midnight's show contains features common to most of the quasi-credible serials. The hero is surrounded by at least two youthful subordinates, and usually has a humorous character whose harmless stupidity serves as a foil for the heavy witticisms of the others. Villains are either petty and dumb, or sinister and intelligent...
...main difference between the Captain Midnight and Superman shows is that the Captain can't "leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...
This incongruous combination of adventures high and low runs through most serials of the fantastic variety. Perhaps this is necessary, for if Superman saved the mankind regularly twice a month, his Hooper rating might fall off. Even so, his sponsors have found it wise to offer trinkets and small prizes to encourage the unseen audience of juvenile consumers...