Truth, justice and the American Indian way

We’ve long lamented the American confusion of medium and message where comic books are concerned. Though comics are widely read throughout Europe and Asia, only in the United States does the form of comics remain largely synonymous with the genre of superheroes.

But a fascinating exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian makes clear that the two Jewish kids from Cleveland who created Superman in 1938 were far from the first people on this continent to tell graphic stories of heroes endowed with otherworldly gifts.