The Modern Day Comic Book Hero By Jacob Malewitz We’ve all heard it: I want to be famous or I want to be rich. You don’t hear them saying I want to be a super hero that many times. But for the modern idea, who is the modern hero of the comic book world? What do heroes do in comic books that is different from other fiction? And who are the modern heroes of today? Get Real, How Heroes Started Heroes in comic book fiction may have started in the 1930s with Marvel and DC starting to break out the modern day comic book hero as we know. Superman in simple, or a character similar and still known, is perhaps of your earliest and most successful modern day heroes. A hero from another planet, powers beyond the mortal man, and who had a hero side and a “I’m Clark Kent” side. He was a hero who started in Action Comics, and was big success for the youth movement of comics in the golden age. There were pulp heroes before that, for example like Tarzan and Conan. However, Superman is your earliest o