Iron Man Marvel Superhero Store and Stories

Great, iconic heroes we’re not short on. They are commonplace and well known. Spider-Man, Captain America, Superman and the like are tried and true, and true blue, and all that good stuff. And that’s fine and well, we need that. But somewhere along the way someone decided we also needed a darker type of hero. An ‘anti-hero’ if you will.

Who the first superhero was is a an issue that will forever be debated, but I think it’s fair to say that the first somewhat anti-hero had to be DC Comics’ Batman. While he’s not quite as much of an anti-hero as, say, marvel comics the punisher, he’s certainly no bright and happy-go-lucky ball of sunshine either. He does have morals and limits, unlike many anti-heroes, but he still leans more to the darker side of the spectrum than his contemporaries of the truth and justice ilk.

The previously mentioned marvel comics the Punisher is probably a more appropriate example of an anti-hero. He does what he does for justice, but he also does it for revenge. Read the rest of this entry »

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