Steve Jackson Games Forums - View Single Post

Prince Charon · 05-11-2019, 02:24 PM

So, apparently I was wrong about how old the concept of masked superheroes is. Just recently watched Lost Hero of the Golden Age Episode 8: The First Super Hero (it's about nine minutes long), and apparently the early-Victorian 'prankster' criminal Spring-heeled Jack was turned into a fictional hero by the penny dreadfuls of the time. One warning, the music in the video can be a bit intrusive at times.

I'm currently thinking that the Spring-heel'd Jack of Earth-3 is a succession of different men (and maybe a woman or two) using the identity for their own purposes, some of which are relatively heroic, and some not. This was probably also the case with the Spring-heeled Jack of Earth-2.

EDIT: The previous video got deleted and replaced with Spring-heeled Jack: The First Super Hero, which is about twelve minutes long.

05-11-2019, 02:24 PM	#683
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	Re: Five Earths, All in a Row So, apparently I was wrong about how old the concept of masked superheroes is. Just recently watched Lost Hero of the Golden Age Episode 8: The First Super Hero (it's about nine minutes long), and apparently the early-Victorian 'prankster' criminal Spring-heeled Jack was turned into a fictional hero by the penny dreadfuls of the time. One warning, the music in the video can be a bit intrusive at times. I'm currently thinking that the Spring-heel'd Jack of Earth-3 is a succession of different men (and maybe a woman or two) using the identity for their own purposes, some of which are relatively heroic, and some not. This was probably also the case with the Spring-heeled Jack of Earth-2. EDIT: The previous video got deleted and replaced with Spring-heeled Jack: The First Super Hero, which is about twelve minutes long. __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted. Last edited by Prince Charon; 01-28-2020 at 04:33 PM.