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The document discusses the various genres and media that featured popular superhuman heroes before the advent of the modern superhero genre, including movie serial heroes from the silent film and early sound eras, crime pulps, masked vigilantes in penny dreadfuls, dime novels and pulps, other hero pulps in science fiction and weird fantasy genres popularized in pulps, and newspaper comic strips like those of Roy Crane which inspired Joe Shuster's creation of Superman.Read less