![]() The Green Hornet had to go through the fetishist fol-de-rol of donning costume, floppy hat, black mask, gas gun, menacing automobile, and insect sound effects before he was even ready to go out in the street. The Shadow had to cloud men's minds to be in business. I don't mean to criticize it's just a statement of fact. Previous heroes- the Shadow, the Green Hornet, the Lone Ranger- were not only more vulnerable they were fakes. ![]() ![]() Neil Gaiman had written comic books, in addition to his novels.Īnd Hollywood's Golden Bad Boy, Quentin Tarantino, plagiarized liberally from Feiffer's book during the climax to Kill Bill: Volume 2.īut in 1965, academics refused to take comic books seriously. Pulitzer Prize winning-novelist Michael Chabon had gleefully praised the genre. Comic books had inspired successful films aimed at adult audiences. By 2000, many a scholar and graduate student had pontificated on the significance of Captains America, Marvel, and Canuck. And he understood the cultural and historical significance of the genre, and was willing to say so, in public, in print. ![]() ![]() He remained a fan, despite his later success as a writer. Feiffer had been a child when Superman and Batman made their debuts, and as a young man he had worked in the business. He was in an excellent position to do so. In 1965, Jules Feiffer published the first serious examination of superhero comic books. ![]()
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