{"id":9978,"date":"2025-07-04T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:07:05","slug":"how-superman-started-out-as-a-radical-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9978","title":{"rendered":"How Superman started out as a radical rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of slum homes in order to force the authorities to build better housing (a risky strategy, that one). In another, he takes on the city&#8217;s gambling industry because it is bankrupting addicts. And in another, he declares war on everyone he sees as being responsible for traffic-related deaths. He terrifies reckless drivers, he abducts the mayor who hasn&#8217;t enforced traffic laws, he smashes up the stock of a second-hand car dealer, and he wrecks a factory where faulty cars are assembled. &#8220;It&#8217;s because you use inferior metals and parts so as to make higher profits at the cost of human lives,&#8221; he informs the owner. Were Superman&#8217;s direct-action protest campaigns strictly legal? No, but they were riotous, boldly political fun \u2013 and almost 90 years on, they stand as a fascinating street-level account of US urban life in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of slum homes in order to force the authorities to build better housing (a risky strategy, that one). In another, he takes on the city&#8217;s gambling industry because it is bankrupting addicts. And in another, he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[916,2363,2685,2684],"class_list":{"0":"post-9978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-radical","9":"tag-rebel","10":"tag-started","11":"tag-superman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}