Joie de Vivre Magazine: DC Comics

Friday, February 14, 2020

Did the Chinese Invent the Superhero Team?

Long before the invention of comic books, there was a band of seven Chinese brothers, each with their own magical or supernatural powers. Another mark of Asian influence in the Western world. DC Comic retold the Chinese legend and called the brothers “The Great Ten”. Seven? Ten? (Just continue reading and you'll figure out the math.)

The Great Ten made several appearances in DC's "New 52" series and even spawned their own nine-part series in 2009. ...

* This is hardly DC Comics' only push for Chinese heroes. They recently introduced a Chinese Superman, with a Chinese Batman and Wonder Woman on the way. Not to be outdone, rival Marvel Comics also rolled out a Korean Hulk.

Source: Robert Lamb. "Did the Chinese Invent the Superhero Team?" 16 May 2016.

HowStuffWorks.com. https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/comic-books/did-the-chinese-invent-the-superhero-team.htm. 17 November 2017

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My kids are always raving and telling me about how cool fan art is and how it is the best compliment ever and shows appreciation and adoration. Per Wikipedia: "Fan art is artwork created by fans of a work of fiction and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work."

This fan art is so fantastic it has me speechless. All I can do is point you to the person who deserves all the credit!

"As the hit DCEU movie Wonder Woman was in its fourth day of breaking the US box office this past weekend, Atlanta-based illustrator Marcus Williams (Tuskegee Heirs) started breaking the internet — or Facebook and Twitter, at least — by posting a spine-tingling tribute to Wonder Woman and her largely forgotten fraternal twin sister, Nubia. ..."

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