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Skye Reynolds posted...

War has always been a headache for comic book writers.

When real people are fighting and dying, it's disrespectful to have an invincible flying man in blue tights swoop in and defeat the enemy. Yet, it's also difficult to write a justification for why guys a individual like Superman would stay neutral when his country needs him the most.

Despite comic book covers with Superman striking Hitler or taking down military equipment, the writers of that era made deliberate attempts to keep the war out of the comics themselves. That didn't stop the cartoon writers though from having Superman single-handedly take down the Japanese armada as if the US troops couldn't get the job done themselves.

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There were some stories of the pre Justice League, the Justice Society fighting Japanese and Germans in the early days of the war but I think they later stopped that because some of the readers were actual soldiers and they wanted to escape the war not see it in their entertainment.