Comic Book Adaptations
In comic book circles it is often suggested that the two Jewish creators of the Superman comic, which was essentially the beginning of superhero comics and comic books, were partly inspired by the story of the Golem of Prague.
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Famous quotes containing the words comic and/or book:
“The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)