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strannik01 (strannik01) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-08 12:02:00

Current location:	Argo Tea, Chicago
Current mood:	nostalgic
Entry tags:	char: super-american, creator: dan zolnerowich, era: golden age, publisher: fiction house, series: weird golden age patriotism, status: public domain

Weird Golden Age Patriotism - Super-American
MLJ's the Shield was the first patriotic superhero in American comics, but it wasn't until Captain America came around that the trend really took off. Every publisher rushed to jump on the bandwagon and get their own patriotic hero (or several) out on the shelves. Some were fairly mundane, but others... Others were just plain weird.

In this series, I will take a look at some of the odder, more unique examples of the trend. Members of the original scans_daily will probably remember some of them, but others will be brand new.

First, we have Super-American, originally published by Fiction House. The following story originally appeared in Fight Comics #15. Writer unknown, art by Dan Zolnerowich.

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psychop_rex
2009-08-10 06:26 am UTC (link)

Exactly - kind of a reflection of changing social mores. I mean, you had this whole societal clash in the '60's because society was basically divided between the people who still believed that the government is automatically your friend, and the people who believed this to be a lie. If you brought a character into the middle of this who believed the first version, and was prepared to defend it with lethal force if necessary, he'd be incredibly divisive - some people would be going 'yeah! He's givin' th' young punks what for!', and the others would be going 'this is crazy; he's killing people, he's got to be stopped'. And there'd probably be some crossover between the two - people who admired the Super-American's patriotism but deplored his methods, and people who deplored both his methods and his convictions, but still held onto an image of him as this great WW2 hero. He's a character with some juice, he is, if the right writer took him on.

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