I've been reading a shit ton of Golden Age(superhero stories, I didn't bother to read the cowboy or detective anthologies outside of EC and Atlas cause I would die of boredom) and honestly, I don't get where the idea that Golden Age superheroes were thinking in simple good and evil. I mean the stories are kind of straight forward and simple but morality wise? Superman levels a city because it means they'll build cool new ones(literally Ozymandias' plan), and that was after failing to teach kids that crime doesn't pay and he blames it on their environment. Human Torch(android) slimes out his creator just cause he felt like he was gonna use him to make money. Namor started out as a straight up villain sliming mfers until the 3rd issue where a woman he liked convinced him otherwise. There's also Hourman who instead of just arresting a guy, just pressures him to not do crime again for the sake of his family. I'm guessing this perception comes from the CCA and Silver Age and people just lump the two ages together because there's no clear point where one ends and the other begins
People just assume things without checking.
>>154358331>Superman levels a city because it means they'll build cool new onesDoes he kill anybody? Does he kill innocents?
>>154358347This, and yeah what OP said about the silver age. It’s a gross mix of the public’s perception of superheroes (hokey, corny, hack tripe), which is 99% Silver Age bullshit because boomers grew up with those and run the media conglomerates, and not doing enough research so just assuming it was always this way.
