Growing Up Heroes is a photoblog by Franz Donovan. It's an attempt to explore how comicbook heroes impacted the way that we grew up. Readers can submit photos of themselves pretending to be superheroes as kids.
When I was about six, my mom sewed a piece of velcro onto an old towel. It became a quite functional cape, which I used to variously play Batman or Super John (my own heroic persona).
How about you? Did you pretend to be a superhero when you were a kid? Who was your favorite?
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I remember a certain Saturday morning cartoon that had short episodes of Zoro and the Lone Ranger. Frequently, those were the two I wanted to be like - my mom made me a black cape for Zoro.
The Lone Ranger was my number 1. I had cap pistols with the red paper caps, the mask, and the hat.
Superman was a close second.
I always liked Spiderman, I used to try to climb the walls.
I had a cousin that was in to Superman. He was about 6 when he tied a cape around his neck and tryed to fly out a second story window. He was lucky he only broke an arm.
Zorro was a favorite of mine - I was all in to swashbucklery of all sorts - but he isn't a superhero.
I always liked Batman but that's such an obvious choice, I'll suggest my second favorite superhero - Green Lantern (the REAL GL, Hal Jordan, not any of those others).
In brightest day, in darkest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!
well, in some sense Batman is not a superhero either - just a hero with a secret identity, wearing a costume and fighting crime, but no super powers. If you consider Batman a superhero, though, I think Zoro has to count . . .
If Batman, Green Arrow, and Phantom are superheroes, then so are Zorro and the Lone Ranger.
Dan, did you see the recent Green Lantern movie?
I never tried to fly with my cape. Probably because I knew that Batman couldn't.
I spent a great deal of my childhood as a horse...
Draft or riding?
John,
I don't think I knew the difference between horses then. I thought my hair was a mane, wore cowgirl boots, and I wore a sock tucked in the back of my jeans for a tail. I actually remember going into a convenience store wondering if the clerks would mind serving a soft serve cone to a horse...
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