Nazi, Confederate and Soviet comic book heroes.

I am wondering if these three used comics as propaganda during and after beating the americans. what would be their heroes and what would be the american villains?
 
I remember reading in TL-191 that a Confederate comic book hero Hyperman destroyed New York City once. :p

He was basicly just a spoof of Superman though.
 

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What about Nascar driving gun blazing Billy Bob shooting the pants of the Jews, Negroes and Homosexuals who control the corrupt Capitalist society up north.
 
IOTL Soviets did not produce enough in comic books for consumers aged 8+, but they made enough propaganda books and movies, some of which series with same protagonists. They were more of 007 genre (no superpowers given to protagonist), as this whole idea of humans being born unequal didn't sit well with communist ideologues and their egalitarian drive, but in different TL those characters could be easily developed in superhumans:

  1. Major Pronin. Tough police (militia) officer fighting criminals and undercover enemy agents in the belly of big city. Basically "Die Hard" Willis and Glover wrapped into one.
  2. Inspector Aniskin. Another police officer, but of more thinking and cunning variety and working in quiet rural precinct. Mrs. Maple in uniform, more or less.
  3. Border guard Karatsupa and his sidekick dog Indus. One who fights wile agents of world imperialism, encroaching on Socialist Motherland.
  4. Intelligence agent Max Otto von Stirlitz
  5. Pilot Sigizmund Levanevsky (IOTL he died in air crash during long-range flight from USSR to USA over North Pole, but crypto-history in comic book could have him smuggled away for secret experiments to give him superhuman ability). Soviet Sky Captain (it is amazing how well 2004 movie reflects Soviet aesthetic; if not for English I would swear I'm watching remake of The Sannikov Land). Him being a Pole is actually bonus.
  6. Vassily Chapayev with his sidekicks Comissar Furmanov and Anna the machinegunner
  7. Leon Termen. Crazy scientist who works for KGB.
  8. Vassily Tyorkin. Superhuman soldier, but nice and gentle and funny with his comrades.
  9. Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich. They're finally returned to save Motherland from evil enemies.
  10. Unlikely but funny: Rabinovitch. Former dissident, possibly got into Gulag once for having too sharp tongue but was successfully re-educated and now uses his craftiness to help Socialist Motherland.
 
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IOTL Soviets did not produce enough in comic books for consumers aged 8+, but they made enough propaganda books and movies, some of which series with same protagonists. They were more of 007 genre (no superpowers given to protagonist), as this whole idea of humans being born unequal didn't sit well with communist ideologues and their egalitarian drive, but in different TL those characters could be easily developed in superhumans:

  1. Major Pronin. Tough police (militia) officer fighting criminals and undercover enemy agents in the belly of big city. Basically "Die Hard" Willis and Glover wrapped into one.
  2. Inspector Aniskin. Another police officer, but of more thinking and cunning variety and working in quiet rural precinct. Mrs. Maple in uniform, more or less.
  3. Border guard Karatsupa and his sidekick dog Indus. One who fights wile agents of world imperialism, encroaching on Socialist Motherland.
  4. Intelligence agent Max Otto von Stirlitz
  5. Pilot Sigizmund Levanevsky (IOTL he died in air crash during long-range flight from USSR to USA over North Pole, but crypto-history in comic book could have him smuggled away for secret experiments to give him superhuman ability). Soviet Sky Captain (it is amazing how well 2004 movie reflects Soviet aesthetic; if not for English I would swear I'm watching remake of The Sannikov Land). Him being a Pole is actually bonus.
  6. Vassily Chapayev with his sidekicks Comissar Furmanov and Anna the machinegunner
  7. Leon Termen. Crazy scientist who works for KGB.
  8. Vassily Tyorkin. Superhuman soldier, but nice and gentle and funny with his comrades.
  9. Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich. They're finally returned to save Motherland from evil enemies.
  10. Unlikely but funny: Rabinovitch. Former dissident, possibly got into Gulag once for having too sharp tongue but was successfully re-educated and now uses his craftiness to help Socialist Motherland.

Haha, that brought a smile to my face.

Rabinovich especially. Nice touch.
 
Haha, that brought a smile to my face.

Rabinovich especially. Nice touch.
:) BTW, how could we forget The Elusive Avengers? They're the closest thing USSR got to superheroes. Some other "superhero candidates" from Soviet lore:

  1. Suhov
  2. Alisa Seleznyova and Gromozeka (schoolgirl ISOTed from happy communist future and her alien friend).
  3. Captain Tamantsev
  4. Gleb Zheglov (super tough cop, bordering on vigilanteism)
It isn't a co-incidence that them all (except Rabinovitch and ISOTed Alisa) are government employees. Soviets held very bleak view of vigilantism (I guess fear of armed and independent group played a role)
 
I think the Soviets may not have had so many heroes, and this is a guess, is Communism. The entire principal is for workers, whay would they glorify people who are above the workers?
 
not factual but an idea that I had

Silverman, Peter. “Americana in Ink: A 20th Century History of American Comics” Harper Collins, New York. 1998.

Much like its neighbor to the north, comics played an important role in Southern culture throughout the 20th century. The root an inspirations of many of the stylings came from illustrated serials found in the major newspapers of Atlanta and New Orleans. The most popular of these featured the misadventures of Unka Jim and Sambo and Reb Walton a heroic frontiersmen. While its undeniable that comic books themselves were first created in New York, and spread southwards during the subsequent decades, the confederacy soon developed a rich tradition independent from its northern neighbor. The great shift of comics publishing emerged in Charleston with the founding of Wonder Comics.

Wonder Comics was founded by Walter Glass in 1938. Walter, was a recently unemployed advertising executive. Having first seen comics during a business trip to New York, he figured that they would be an enormous success south of the Mason Dixon line. Joining him were two young illustrators, Arthur Weiner and Louis Sinclair. They would be responsible for creating Wonder’s most enduring comic creations as well as defining the tone of confederate comics for decades to come.

While super heroes, hard boiled detectives, and tales of terror dominated comics in the North, the tone of southern comics was quit different. Glass felt they need to emphasize southern values of honor and chivalry. This unknowingly lead to the emergence of the Knight comics genre. These stories most often featured heroic young knights revolting against tyrannical kings, rescuing fair pale skinned maidens, and slaying fierce dragons and other monsters for vast hoards of treasure. These comics were at first largely unlinked serials, however in 1939 Arthur Weiner developed the world of Aerthurn.

Aerthurn was a fictionalized world of fantasy, which is notable for super imposing the Americas into a loosely European medieval setting. It featured the chivalric republic of Aerthurn and its brave knights and dark skinned serfs. Deeply influence by the writings of Edger Rice Burroughs, Aerthurn was at the threshold of wild an untamed lands of magic and barbarianism, but it also had to contend with the intrigues of rival kingdoms. These included loosely based characters of Britain and France portrayed in a largely positive manner, and rivals based on the trans-continental alliance of Germany, Russia, and the United States. These kingdoms were the source of mayhem and evil in Aerthurn with the Germans being cruel and militaristic, the Russians lumbering and dimwitted and the Yankee’s effete, greedy and mongrelized. In order to defeat these foes, Aerthurn depended on its champions and saviors. The Grey Knight, swift and unstoppable in darkness, The Paladin a being of great purity possessing the magical talking sword Eversmite, and Red Robert a hulking mountain man possessing super human strength.

Its unfortunate, but unsurprising that most early era confederate comics were unabashedly racist. A trend that would be amplified by the 1945 comics code which forbid any comic to challenge confederate “values” or depict negroes in a state of rebellion. The consequences of this were many…
 
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