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- Superheroes have existed for as long as stories, before writing and across every culture from which we can find evidence. Fionn mac Cumhaill built the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, and Gilgamesh defeated Humbaba in Mesopotamia. Rama was exiled from Ayodhya in India, while Beowulf slew Grendel and Grendel’s mother in Scandinavia.
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At their best, superhero origin stories inspire us and provide models of coping with adversity, finding meaning in loss and trauma, discovering our strengths and using them for good purpose.
Even more than 'death' stories, crossovers, event stories, and attire changes, origin stories are the core of superheroes' existences. Origins not only reflect the sociohistorical contexts in which heroes were created, but they also reflect a culture's understanding of what makes superheroes storytelling unique vehicles."
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Dave Stevens' origin for Cliff Secord, the man known as the Rocketeer, was a striking example of just how simple but effective an origin can be. Debuting as a back-up in 1982's "Starslayer" #2, Cliff Secord was a stunt pilot in 1938 who came to see his plane when he saw a police disturbance. As it turned out, some bad guys had stolen an experimenta...
The origin for Robbie Reyes, the new Ghost Rider, in 2014's "All-New Ghost Rider" #1 (by Felipe Smith, Tradd Moore and Val Staples) was a stunningly modern take on a classic Silver Age style origin. Robbie Reyes is a young man who works as a mechanic and takes care of his younger brother, who is in a wheelchair. Robbie doesn't make a lot of money, ...
In the first issue of "Luke Cage: Hero for Hire" in 1972, Roy Thomas, Arhie Goodwin, George Tuska and Billy Graham gave us such a cinematic origin for Luke Cage that it is not surprising that the "Luke Cage"TV series practically adapted it scene by scene. The concept is that Luke Cage is in prison for a crime he did not commit. Constantly tortured ...
As mentioned before, one of the trademarks of a great Marvel Silver Age origin is that the protagonists do something selfish and/or stupid before they learn from their experience and become heroes. It's a wonderful hook that resulted in multi-faceted superheroes. In 1961's "Fantastic Four"#1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Reed Richards is so angry wit...
In 1962's "Incredible Hulk" #1, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Paul Reinman took a slight deviation from the "hero's flaws cause problem" approach, as here, the hero's flaws were the end result of the character! Dr. Bruce Banner is working on a powerful new gamma bomb. However, right before testing was set to begin, a teenager drove onto the test site to...
Thoris one of the few Marvel Silver Age heroes whose origin was not really revealed in the first issue of his ongoing feature. 1962's "Journey Into Mystery" #83 by Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, Jack Kirby, and Joe Sinnott, tells a good chunk of Thor's origin, but not the heart of it. In the story, Dr. Donald Blake is on vacation in Norway when he stumble...
1964's "Daredevil"#1 by Stan Lee and Bill Everett (with a lot of help from Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko) introduced us to the world of Matt Murdock. A quiet boy, he grew up with a boxer for a father. One day, Matt was walking home from school when he saw a blind man about to be hit by a truck. Matt knew his father's wishes, but his inner hero couldn'...
In her debut appearance in 1941's "All-Star Comics" #8 (by William Marston and H.G. Peter), we were quickly caught up on the background of the Amazons who lived apart from "Man's World" on Paradise Island. We also saw how things changed forever when a wounded man, Steve Trevor, washed up on the island. It was decided that someone should go back to ...
In 1941's "Whiz Comics" #2, Bill Parker and C.C. Beck introduced the world to the stunningly bizarre world of Shazam. The opening of the story is this fantastic set piece where a young homeless newsboy, Billy Batson, finds himself following a stranger through a magical subway station. The graphics that Beck used for this journey were psychodelic de...
1940's "Captain America Comics" #1 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby gave us an iconic heroic journey. Young Steve Rogers is far too scrawny to be accepted into the military, but he wants to serve mankind because he is such a great guy. He is given the opportunity to do just that when he is approached to be part of a government experiment where a Super S...
- Brian Cronin
- Senior Writer
Aug 19, 2015 · Every superhero has his origin story, and a surprisingly large number of modern ones owe those origins to myths of gods and heroes who existed millennia before their cultural descendants.
Sep 9, 2023 · Superhero origin stories fall into Joseph Campbell’s (Campbell 1990) rubric of the hero’s journey because the stories are about how the (super)heroes are made. They are about the transformation of human beings, aliens, mutants, demi-gods and goddesses, and other gifted people (e.g., witches) into heroes with special powers .
- Robin S. Rosenberg
- robin@drrobinrosenberg.com
In comic-book lingo there is a specialized meaning for “origin stories.”. They are accounts that relate how superheroes got their superpowers. Some origin stories are based on real people and events, while others are based on more imaginative accounts.
Golden Age (1938–54) In the view of many readers, the histories of superheroes and comic books are interchangeable, but historically the comic book came first. The first modern comic books. The precursor to the modern comic book has a long and interesting history with roots lying deep in the European development of the comic strip.
