The Great Comic-Book Heroes

October, 1965

The Great Comic-Book HeroesComic Books, World War Two, the Depression and I all got going at roughly the same time. I was eight. Detective Comics was on the stands, Hitler was in Spain, and the middle class (by whose employment record we gauge depressions) was, after short gains, again out of work. (I list the above for the benefit of those among us who, of the items cited, remember only comic books.)Eight was a bad age for me. Only a year earlier I had won a gold medal in the John Wanamaker Art...