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For questions about the history of the genre: the origin and evolution of ideas in speculative fiction. Example topics include the first work of speculative fiction with a particular property, or the origin of a term or trope.
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Were the -man/-woman/-boy/-girl suffixes of superheroes once considered...erm...goofy?
Possibly never to the extent you would expect. Yes they are goofy but...
Prior to Superman most proto-superheroes either had over-the-top real names (Flash Gordon, Doc Savage) or descriptive "The" na …
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