He calls the trio of Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane, “literature’s most gripping love triangle,” for example, although what we have here is not a love triangle but the old hero in disguise device, used by Shakespeare, among others, for characters considerably more gripping than the Man of Steel.
But even when he sticks to the ground of non-fiction - Superman is a literary character, after all - Tye is prone to hyperbole. Of course, Tye means merely that the figure of Superman helped boost the morale of American GIs, that he functioned as their “security blanket” - a more reasonable, though still large, claim. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. If true, it raises the question of why today’s Superman can’t help give America the backbone to wage war against debt, unemployment and the entitlements problem. Superman, he maintains, “helped give America the backbone to wage war against the Nazis.” This is an astounding piece of historical information. Even Tye, a lucid writer and journalistic pro, seems slightly unhinged by his subject. Presumably they view a lifetime spent on solving the mystery of Reeves - did he commit suicide, or was he murdered? - a lifetime well spent. Case in point: According to journalist Larry Tye, author of Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero, there exist “forensic experts and researchers” who have spent a lifetime looking into the death of George Reeves, ill-fated star of the television show Adventures of Superman. It was inevitable that Superman would call for super buffs.
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