A select few comic artists have such a striking eye for character design that their original ... the Question harks back to ...

All of them, but that first one in particular, hit the center of the Venn diagram that so many superhero ... into the pulp era in which Bob Kane and Bill Finger created its title character.

In 1939, Marvel Comics #1 featured some of the greatest pulp heroes of the Golden Age: The fiery Human Torch. The avenging Angel. The seafaring Namor the Sub-Mariner. The aquatic anti-hero and the ...