American Superman Super Hero

Generally speaking comic books were made to give amusement to the youth. Just like television adults didn’t perceive it as mature or as something they would take into consideration. In this current generation comic books are accepted by all ages and ethnicities. Racially comic books weren’t very diverse especially the characters and their roles. Dating back to the first comic book that was released in the United States in 1933 which was the famous funnies and was labeled as the carnival of comics. Around that time in comics white characters were the norm. Superman was one of the first superhero comics ever made. Superman is a caucasian super hero who was created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Superman is labeled as a superhero because of the powers he beholds. A superhero is a benevolent fictional character with superhuman powers and the powers that make superman a superhero are super strength, flight, invulnerability, super speed, heat vision, freeze breath, x-ray vision, superhuman hearing, and a healing factor. The term hero describes someone who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities, and in that generation those heroes were white. Black’s couldn’t be a super human that was a hero? Could they even have a role in a comic book? Or even if they had a role would it be satisfying? A black person wasn’t usually in a comic in the early stages but if they were they wouldn't be perceived the way that African Americans would want. Whitewash jones was apart of a group of 4, the other 3 were white sidekicks who were useful and sensible while jones depicted as a bumbling, watermelon-loving dimwit. As a black character he was portrayed as the sidekick of a group of sidekicks which was literally the …show more content…
It has shown the growth of society and the diversity in race change that develops a huge benefit in how someone may think about their