13 Days Of Christmas: Christmas With The Super-Heroes searched for the holiness of Superman and friends
You already know the 12 Days Of Christmas, with its drummers drumming and partridges and gold rings, but we here at The A.V. Club like to take everything one step further, for your reading pleasure. Hence, 13 Days Of Christmas, a collection of essays on a handful of beloved holiday classics and a few that have sadly fallen through the cracks. Up today, a 1988 anthology covering the holiday season with DC's best-known superhero characters.
The best novel I've ever read about the mythology of superhero comics, and what that mythology means to comics readers, is Joseph Torchia's The Kryptonite Kid. The book is written in the form of letters to Superman from the hero, a lonely, suffering first-grader named Jerry Chariot. The big adult role models in Jerry's life are the drunken, abusive father who makes his home life hell, and the strict, judgmental ...
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