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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17. Because superhero comics are curiosity shop heap of earlier genres (newspaper stories, romance, mystery man, etc) stories have resonance
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18. Anachronism becomes a kind of memory trace, an allusive echo to earlier works. Daredevil is 1930s social melodrama.
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19. Some of the anachronisms stick out, though. Daredevil's father is an Irish American boxer who takes falls for mob money.
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20. Jack Murdoch belongs to world of On The Waterfront, not our world.
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