For a 68-year-old, Superman looks pretty good — particularly when you consider he died once, and even sported an unfortunate mullet for a while. It’s hard to bounce back from a mullet.
But how has the Man of Steel lasted so long? BBC News tries to find the answer.
“The thing that’s most appealing about superheroes is the idea of someone who has great power and knows how to use it wisely,” comics writer and critic Danny Fingeroth tells the website. “If you think of the time Superman emerged from, with the rise of Fascism in Europe and a world still in the throes of the Great Depression, you can see it would be an appealing fantasy.”
For those of us itching for our daily dose of Superman as religious allegory, the article offers a bit of that, too.
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