A work · 1938 · Press
The first superhero
A character who cannot die, printed in a newspaper, read by a generation of children on the same day.
The first parasocial figure with an explicit immortality guarantee, which is the trade being made: I will never get over this, and I will never have to find out. Nobody has ever been made this offer in a relationship.
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