“In 1929 we enter what we choose to call the axial decade for the formation of the American monomyth. Here the unknown redeemer on a horse becomes the ‘Masked Rider of the Plains’; his sexual renunciation is complete; he assume the uniform and the powers of angelic avengers; and thus he grows from mere heroism to superheroism” (Lawrence and Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero, p. 36).
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