![]() ![]() According to the Superman Homepage, the bandleader Freddie "Schnickelfritz" Fisher's 1941 song "Superman" might've been the first. BMI/Still Working For The Man, BMI/Music Of Combustion, BMI/Songs Of Windsweot Pacific. It's hard to pinpoint the very first song to make a comic book reference. ML, u> 2 HI 00 42 POP 59 SHE'S LIKE THE WIND (EMI Blackwood. It feels like validation for my geek passions. When Springsteen mentions the Batmobile in "I'm a Rocker," I wonder if it's because he's a loyal reader of Detective Comics or if a rerun of the '60s TV series inspired his pop culture reference-heavy song? (I hope it's the former, but the latter explanation seems more likely.) Even now, during a time when movies and TV have put superheroes in pop culture's pole position, each time I catch a reference to Iron Man or Batman makes me smile. And while we have never been blessed with having a version of the Teen Titans tearing it up onstage as the late, great Darwyn Cooke envisioned, we have had some cool and quirky music inspired by capes.Įvery time I hear a song that name-drops a comic book character (and it's much more common today than it used to be), I wonder if the singer or band are actual comics fans. Music and comics have been crossing paths for decades.įrom 1960s psychedelic shout-outs to some of the wilder elements of Silver Age Marvel, to original tunes crafted for Broadway shows and present-day hip-hop and metal tributes, comics have long provided inspiration to musicians. ![]()
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