[ExI] Hugo Danner the Transhuman

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:35 PM 8/31/2008 -0700, Stuart LaForge wrote:

>This essay makes a really good case that the uncredited inspiration for
>Superman, and much of the superhero genre, was a character named Hugo Danner
>from a 1930 science fiction novel entitled "Gladiator" by Phillip Wylie

Uncredited? This connection is well known in sf scholarship.

Damien Broderick