9.MT @benschwartzy Gotham City [press] routinely plant fake items for police abt gold-plated cats & diamond penguins to lure Batman’s foes.
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10. The interesting thing about all this is how anachronistic the portrayal of the press is in superhero comics.
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11. News reporters in comics all seem redolent of the early 20th century, of The Front Page (AKA His Girl Friday)
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12. Main reason of course is the superhero genre is rooted in 1930s. Even Marvel comics of 1960s owed much to 1930s films.
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13. Crucial to realize that the creators of Marvel comics -- Kirby, Ditko, Lee, Bill Everett, etc -- grew up on Warner Bros. crime dramas.
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14. So the sense of crime in those 1960s Marvel comics was already rooted in an earlier genre.
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15. Superhero comics are always archaeological layers of anachronism: characters are decades old but retro-fitted into present day reality.
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16. I used to think the anachronistic element of superhero comics was a grave weakness in genre, but it has compensations.
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@HeerJeet Look at the first Superman movie in 1978 — a figure of bright optimism, standing up to post-Watergate/Vietnam cynicism.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
@EricKleefeld Exactly. It was a His Girl Friday screwball comedy in age of malaise.
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@HeerJeet With that said, Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor was a wonderful campy take on Richard Nixon.pic.twitter.com/hTXhuwZdmc
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