![]() ![]() Still, there's life in these stories, the kind creative abandon found only when writers and artists make up the rules as they go along. ![]() Trying to come up with the next big thing is almost as difficult as trying to come up with the big thing in the first place, a fact made clear by the creation and immediate disappearance of heroes like Skyman, the Silver Streak, and Yarko, Master of Magic. Once Superman hit the scene in Action Comics #1 in 1938, publishing companies scrambled to get into the comic book business and create their very money-making superhero. The idea of the superhero began as an amalgamation of the circus strongman and pulp characters like the Shadow and Doc Savage. ![]() Editor Greg Sadowski gathered many of these forgotten heroes into 2009's Supermen! The First Wave of Comic-Book Heroes 1936-1941, a great anthology about comics' Golden Age. ![]()
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