DC Comics and wrer Tom Taylor's gay Superman book, Superman: Son of Kal-El pletely fell out of the Top 50 sal charts for the month of Febary.
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- TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
- IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
Fally, they start nudgg a few top-tier characters out of the closet — but are always reful never to send 'em out whout first attachg an all-important asterisk, as a bulwark agast any backlash om homophobic rears (and/or stockholrs): Rob's queer!
This is a dynamic which led homophobic cric Fredric Wertham to suggt the 1950s that superhero (pecially Batman and Rob) promoted homosexualy through their privilegg of male/male bonds. The pot here isn’t that Superman was really gay those early ics.
But the obssn wh double inty and disavowed sire do suggt that the character has been built on anxieti about homosexualy and masculy.
IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
) But at the same time, refg to date women also mak Superman ls than fully male a homophobic, misogynist culture which se homosexualy as feme and therefore lser. There are superhero stori over the years, though, that have qutned the genre’s terlked mments to homosexual panic and to vlence. Superman, many of his eratns, is most sred not of Kryptone but of femy, which has stereotypilly been lumped together wh homosexualy.
And a new Aquaman ic stars a gay Black man who is posned to bee the tle has been a steady evolutn for an dtry that had moved to censor self a number of ways after “Sctn of the Innocent, ” a 1954 book by the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, raised ncerns about sex, gore and vlence and suggted a lk between readg ics and juvenile lquency. In one sectn, Wertham scribed Batman and Rob as “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together. )One of the earlit mastream ics to feature gays or lbians appeared 1980.