With a comic book industry almost completely constructed of funny cartoons and detective based mysteries America needed something fresh. The “Golden Age” of comics started off with fan favorites like Superman, Batman, and Wonder woman. All of which revolved around sad stories of orphanage and living their life to fight crime for the greater good none of which were that original. Many years and further thoughts of storyline brought a landmark pair of graphic novels from 1986, Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's The Watchmen, which ushered in an age of superheroes that sided with the “bad guys” to introduce sympathy for why the villain does what they do. Despite these modifications the superhero continues to …show more content…
The ''man of steel'' being from a different planet he embodies powers of strength, mind, and flying that matches nothing of this earth. Besides, as Umberto Eco argued in his 1979 essay on Superman, he “reinforced masculine values of individualism, moral superiority, mastery over his environment, and a resistance to domestic demands.” To add to a generally complexing persona, Superman with both him and Lois Lane being reporters it takes a lot of deceiving to keep her with him where in some timelines she doesn’t know about his secret identity. In this way, the hero reinforces a gender ideology popularized in the nineteenth century in which men could live these double lives where women seemed to always be stuck outside of the box not ever completely understanding the character we know and the person they do. Even though Lois Lane is given a good position in society where she is basically “living in a man’s world” is how people refer to it if the occupation is usually only subject to men. Only the male figure is allowed to have two identities; Lois Lane and other women are only able to have