What did this youthful editor know about the comic-strip heroes of my salad days?
It is a comic strip in music, with comic-strip heroes.
A Press, frustrated by censorship, built them into almost comic-strip heroes, daily recounting and exaggerating their latest exploits, revelling in the eccentricities of their uniforms.
"Vicky", as the lead political cartoonist of the News Chronicle, ridiculed him as 'Supermac', a spoof on the American comic-strip hero Superman.
Latrell Sprewell revealed his ability to slip into the locker room at halftime as an ordinary player and duck out as a comic-strip hero.
Along with ten stamps featuring jazz greats and twenty depicting comic-strip heroes, the United States Postal Service is about to issue--as it does for every President in the year following his.
Other early adaptations include novels starring the comic-strip hero The Phantom, starting with 1943's Son of the Phantom.
It is no small task to make a comic-strip hero three-dimensional.
Old comic-strip heroes and heroines, written off by adult readers who knew them as teen-agers, have been leased to Hollywood, where they are being regroomed for new adventures and fame.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made his name back in 1982 in John Milius's Conan the Barbarian, a superior sword-and-sorcery epic, as a comic-strip hero from the mythic dark ages.