Spring Heeled Jack, who transitioned from London urban myth (1830s) to melodrama anti-hero (1870s) to prototype superhero (1880s-early 1900s). As written by "penny dreadful" author Alfred Burrage, SHJ was a wealthy aristocrat who assumed the disguise of a devilish, bat-winged avenger of the night, maintained a secret underground lair and used his athletic and technological skills to battle evil-doers
– sounds familiar?
excellent la déco
Awesome share!
Great find!
Nice. I'll mention it to my friend who's a big batman fan :p
Wow! I had no idea! I knew it started with Detective Comics, but from a guy named Spring Heeled Jack – nope, didn't know that!
Just read this. That's brilliant.
lol +TeD have a look at this and get curious haha
+Nitish Saxena I am not curious atm, I am scared. You'll know why once u come visiting…
+Phlash Tha I believe we havent met…have we?
Nope, my database doesn't have any record of you..
#TeDisCurious
Why does it remain unacknowledged? That seems wrong.
What!!! 10 whole cents for a detective comic!!!! Highway robbery!!!
+TeD Word up 🙂 … +Raymond Cool Probably because by the time Batman was created, those motifs had already been elaborated in pulp novels – most famously by Johnston McCulley's Zorro character and by Russell Thorndike's "Scarecrow"stories – to the point that they were part of the zeitgeist. Batman was just the most influential comic book manifestation of those themes.
no way!!: http://youtu.be/Sp67K_Sqd-8
Now that is truly history worth knowing.
Appreciate the mind expansion +Phlash Tha
+Stephanie Portillo