Archive for April 16th, 2014

Superman and the Clan of the Fiery Cross

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

Wednesday – 16 April 2014
Four-Color Coverage is back. Finally.

Sara! sent me a link to an article from Dangerous Minds titled “How Superman Singlehandedly Thwarted the Ku Klux Klan.”

Superman

I’m pretty much a life-long Superman fan; needless to say, I was intrigued.  He might not be my #1 favorite, but he is on the list. In his seventy-five-plus year career, Superman has taken on many threats, but I can’t recall having heard him take on a group like the Klan before. I read the article, thinking that it was simply a comic story that I had somehow missed… and discovered that the storyline was an account of one man’s actual undercover investigation – and exposé – of the Klan and how it became part of the Superman radio program of the mid-1940s.

Click here to read the article.