Nobody has guessed the last Stupid Hero Quote I posted, so I'll pose another in the meantime.
We've talked a lot about villains' virtues, but never about hero's virtues. Whatever they are, modesty is clearly not among them for this mystery hero:
"Anyway, I'm always afraid girls don't love me for myself ... are merely dazzled by my fame and super-powers. I wonder how it would feel to be really loved for--myself??! I guess ... I'll never know..."
Who is this hero, crippled by Marvelesque angst over the burdens of his abilities?
2 comments:
That SOUNDS like it might have come from Superman, maybe in the early 70's? His love interests were always after him because he was SUPERMAN, which led to a certain amount of angst as I recall.
Bingo! November 1963,actually. Red kryptonite gives Clark the opportunity to live and fall in love as a normal man with....
Sally Selwyn.
Heh; bet you were expecting an LL, weren't you?
Actually, most post-war Superman stories were soap opera or sitcom!
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