Like the comic book character Superman celebrates Christmas ? In 1945, quite mobile: He’s like Santa Claus in the Miles & More mode and flies to Europe, China and Russia. He brings war-lost children back to their parents and the Soviets built a nuclear radiant Christmas tree.

At last there was peace. We write Christmas 1945. Superman, Clark Kent actually, but that’s the same thing, attends a celebration for children who have separated from their parents by the war. Oh, there is but one real Santa Claus, who with their mothers and fathers … But clearly, there is. And he can fly.

Can you think of a unweihnachtlicheres genre as the superhero comic, with its narrative base of “Puff” and “Pow” and men in tights? And yet the Christmas comic one of the abiding traditions of the superhero publishers Marvel and DC, have published hundreds of such stories since its inception.

Just like this one, actually published in December 1945 and somewhat unwieldy “Superman Joy spreads around the Globe” titled. Superman makes his words, the children return to their parents after the war, in Spain, China, Holland, France. All in a night, so like Santa Claus. In the wake of a raisin bomber full of gifts.

Superman, a descendant of Moses

Here, Superman is with Santa Claus just the S in the name. And maybe even the distinctive red cape, while a one coat, the other a cape. Invented in 1938, Superman is clearly read as a response to its two creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel at the news of the escalating persecution of Jews in Europe. Siegel and Shuster were Jewish.

Superman, whose origin story they tell the same in the very first episode, is based significantly on the Moses story of the Old Testament. He is a Marooned and the last survivor of an alien race, stranded on Earth, brought up as a son instead of a farmer couple.

This significant metaphor about the Old Testament deliverer of the Jewish people was certainly the maximum of Subversion, which allowed them the publisher. Otherwise, Superman had to abide by the rules of the white Christian majority. Officially Superman Methodist. He is celebrating Christmas, Hannukah not.

Santa’s elves on the Pacific front

1940, in the resultant for a department store story “Superman’s Christmas Adventure”, probably also the first superhero Christmas comic ever, Superman meets the Santa Claus and brings in a little boy that you had kindly to welcome any Christmas gift. How convenient: The Santa Claus produced in this story Superman dolls that you could buy in a department store of the sponsor of the booklet.

This is a little heavy-handed sentimentality was the figure obtained at Christmas. While Wonder Woman, like many superheroes this time, even at Christmas 1943 had to deal with Nazis (“Gosh! I shoot and the bullets do not hurt her!”), Clark Kent, in 1944, in direct continuation of its first “Christmas Adventure” sent to the Pacific front – where it meets Santa’s Christmas elves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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