Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my look back at a superhero comedy series published by DC Comics in the 1960s, The Inferior Five.
I take my superheroes seriously. But I've also long since grown tired of overly dark and gritty takes on heroes, and I've always had a soft spot for lighter fare and occasional comedy involving superdoers. The campy 1966 Batman TV series was the original catalyst for my interest in superheroes, and while I came to embrace a pulpier image of The Dark Knight, a simple recognition of my roots made it clear that I would always have two Batmen. When I started writing about comics as a freelancer in the '80s, articles I sold to Amazing Heroes included a Hero History of the Charlton Comics character E-Man and a history of intentionally funny superheroes; some day, I'll retype and reprise both of those pieces for this blog. My snarky but loving Amazing Heroes A-Z celebration of lesser-known DC characters has already appeared here: "Who's...WHO?!"
In the mean time, I have written here about my introduction to E-Man, DC's Silver Age revival of Plastic Man, becoming a fan of the original Captain Marvel, Marvel Comics' humor series Not Brand Echh, my stillborn attempt to write for Harvey Comics, and my thoughts on a hypothetical Batman Meets The Monkees crossover. Although not mentioned specifically in my '60s autobiography Singers, Superheroes, And Songs On The Radio: My Life In Pop Culture, and represented in that piece only by a reproduction of the cover of The Inferior Five # 1, The Inferior Five were an integral part of my childhood.
And I may or may not still have a crush on Dumb Bunny. Either way, my reminiscence of The Inferior Five provides the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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