BijouBob8mm wrote:
But this board is not for everyone. Comic books are not for everyone.
I guess I was thinking in terms of a broader audience than just Board members or comic book fans because of your mention of "cultural phenomenon," since we only represent a microcosm of all who are out there.  (Had an English teacher who didn't think Burroughs' work qualified as literature when I was in junior high.  Had to smile many years later when I found the first Tarzan novel got reprinted in a "Penguin Classics" edition.)  Again, I was just trying to determine the criteria you were using.  (Hence my bringing up real people who have had comics based on them.  Would Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy or Jerry Lewis qualify as comic book heroes/characters because of their appearance in that medium?)


I would  guess you meant William Boyd, since Clarence Mulford wrote the Hopalong Novels starting in the early 1900's. It did not just serv as a stage name for William Boyd, but a separate property.