A small questionnaire about Supes

Hi Super fans

This idea has been rounding my head for a while, so I've decide to make it. Please I hope you take a little time to answer this questionnaire.

I will ran this questionnaire in two envinronments. One here, where the majority of you are from the USA and growed up in a place when Superman comic books and other items (toys, clothes and others) could be easily reached. And the other in a country (Bolivia) that has 'lost contact' in some degree with Superman and the related items. (This was due to many factors, the beginning of public TV, the increasing in costs of imported goods, and the bankruptcy of mexican 'Editorial Novaro' who published a lot of USA comic-book titles, especially those from DC Comics)

1.- What is your age segment? (1-18); (19-25); (26-40); (41+)

2.- Since when you're collecting Superman comic books?

3.- What things attracted more from Superman?

4.- Have you been harassed for buying comics or for being a Superman fan?

5.- What is your very best memory in which anything Superman-related is involved?

*************** That's all folks, I hope you can help in this small project of my own.

Your friend

19-25

(First wave): late 70s, early 80s. I wish I could give you exact years, but I don't remember THAT well. (Second wave): Started WANTING to in '92, when the 'death of' storyline and Roger Stern's novel got me back into Superman, but I didn't have the money to until 1994. Since then, I've amassed a 1000-issue collection.

You know what? I've been trying to figure that out myself. I mean, seriously, given my typical anti-establishment, anti-mainstream-values stance, you'd think I wouldn't be as attracted to Superman as I am. But I really do like the idea of a guy with limitless power who helps others simply 'cause he was taught to do that. Maybe I'm just not as much of a royal bastard as I think, eh?

While the answer would TECHNICALLY be, 'yes,' I don't think that's the HONEST answer. See, I got crap for it in junior high, but to be fair and honest, I got crap for EVERYTHING in junior high. Buying comics was just a little piece of kindling in a great big bonfire. After I stopped giving a damn what other people said and stopped giving them any of my attention, the most I ever got was odd looks, which I just shook off like a dog with fleas and doesn't really qualify as 'harrassment,' anyway.

Now, my Dad teases me about it, but that's just the way things are in my family. We tease each other about everything, so I don't really count that.

The time when I was six and I put my pet chihuahua Perro in the dryer and told my mother he was Krypto and I'd sent him to the Moon in a rocket ship. Fortunately, I was too little to actually turn the dryer on, otherwise Perro would have been a REALLY nervous little dog, even for a chihuahua.

Tony Caroselli

'Louise, she's all right, she's just near/She's delicate and seems like the mirror/But she just makes it all too concise and too clear/That Johanna's not here/The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face/Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.'

January of 1966. Second Comic I ever read was a Superman book. Loved it then, love it now.

The purity of Superman. No ego, just a desire to help people. His undying belief in the human race, that we can overcome the problems we face. And finally, I really like his character....that all of us are important. Not just one race, or gender or nation...but everyone.

Just from family. Well, maybe one or two teachers, but that ended. My family was the real problem.

Way to many to list.

since that whole soomsday thing, what wsa that 92?

He's just superman. you cant beat that.

Besides my parents yelling at me 'stop wasting all your money on comics!' not really

It's soft of embarrasing so i wont get into detial, but it involves my being about 3 and re-enacting a sceen from the first superman movie. oh yes, then there's the time i was 6, put a fake cape around my neck and climbed to the top of a someone's house, then of course my mom found me up there. Stoped me from doing that again. i guess thats superman related.........

~K-mare

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hehe, this is a good question, like to see more people anwser it.

~K-mare

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26-40

early 1970's

Clark Kent. I was always a bit shy and I could identify with him while fantasizing what it would be like to have that power level.

The nobility of the character. Have to admit if i had that type of power, I wouldn't have been that nice a guy. Superman gave me a better standard to strive for.

Yes- but not on a frequent or on-going basis. Usually guys shouting out moronic things when they saw what I was reading on the bus or if the saw me wearing a Superman shirt. At most I had to put up with it for a 30 minute bus ride, usually only for as long as it takes to walk out of earshot so they can find a new target.

Can't think of a specific memory. It's more little things like having fun playing with Superman action figures with my friends as a kid or long silly debates in high school about how to make a 'realistic' Superman character (plausible takes on the powers, explaining why no one can tell Clark is Superman, etc).

If I had to pick one it would be the anticipation I got spending the whole day reading my new copy of Superman:30's to the 70's. A big book, lots of stories about Superman and no school- I was in 10 year-old heaven.