tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post4989210892235455158..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Ultra-Man Keeps Us Out of WarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-64967903191680343242008-01-16T14:46:00.000-05:002008-01-16T14:46:00.000-05:00Yes, and Superman even goes down to South America ...Yes, and Superman even goes down to South America to fight in a war for a while. That issue was so early that Clark Kent filed his dispatches to the <I>Cleveland Evening News</I>. <BR/><BR/>I didn't think that story was so clearly a comment on current events, though, since the notion that Latin Americans were always fighting unfathomable wars was well established in American pop culture. (See, for example, L. Frank Baum's <I>Boy Fortune Hunters</I> series.) Superman didn't like that war, but he didn't say as clearly as Ultra-Man that Americans shouldn't get involved in other nations' fights.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment. One of these days I plan to discuss Superman's Populist beginning in more detail.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-23636768513909231632008-01-16T14:35:00.000-05:002008-01-16T14:35:00.000-05:00One of the very first Superman stories (1938) had ...One of the very first Superman stories (1938) had the hero fighting greedy munition magnates that were creating wars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com