Golden age Supes was apparently pretty based (he fought slumlords and greedy business men) but I’m no expert on his history
In Action Comic 3 from 1938 he traps abunch of rich people in a mine to teach them a lesson, because they never paid to maintain safety equipment in it.
He was basically a Golem. This avatar of power that would fight on behalf of oppressed people who otherwise couldn't, which is probably the only effective way of telling a superhero story.
I remember Red Son being a fun read, the premise is that baby Superman lands in Ukraine instead of Kansas and is raised to be a comrade.
Oh and Chile and the USA are the last remaining capitalist holdouts on earth, lol.
Everyone says it's good, but I've always been super skeptical because Mark Millar usually writes trash. I should actually read it, get a real opinion
As someone who usually doesn't like Millar, it's actually really fucking good.
Avoids his worst tendencies and is actually a really great read.
It's actually pretty decent, even if unintentionally. It tries to do the lib "communism bad because government wash your ass for you, no freedom to not wash ass, no one knows how to wash their own ass anymore!" take, but ends up making a point about even "benign" imperialism being toxic instead.
He's an anarchist that gets aid from the capitalists to try to overthrow Superman
Also Stalin's illegitimate son killed his parents or something
Miss Early Superman
He beat up slumlords and wife-beaters and didn't afraid of nobody
I read that as "womyn's face" three times, and I was very confused.
