No, really, is it just me or did Golden Age superheroes spend an inordinate amount of time in amusement park surroundings?
From Doll Man: "Python the Brain Thief" by Will Eisner and Lou Fine, Feature Comics #36 (September 1940)
Exhibit A: Doll Man, apparently the victim of a dunk tank.
From The Red Bee: "The Photographer's Murder" by Charles Nicholas, Hit Comics #3 (September 1940)
Exhibit B: The Red Bee riding a rollercoaster car up some tracks and leaping off it... bee-like, I guess.
From Green Lantern: "At the World's Fair" by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell, All-American Comics #18 (September 1940)
Exhibit C: Despite there being two (to date) World's Fair Comics, Green Lantern has an adventure at the Fair in his own book anyway. Throws a guy right off the Perisphere.
No wonder the All-Star Squadron eventually moved in. Superheroes and fairs, man. There's a connection for sure. Futurism? All things amazing? Probably.
Exhibit A: Doll Man, apparently the victim of a dunk tank.
Exhibit B: The Red Bee riding a rollercoaster car up some tracks and leaping off it... bee-like, I guess.
Exhibit C: Despite there being two (to date) World's Fair Comics, Green Lantern has an adventure at the Fair in his own book anyway. Throws a guy right off the Perisphere.
No wonder the All-Star Squadron eventually moved in. Superheroes and fairs, man. There's a connection for sure. Futurism? All things amazing? Probably.
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