"Old School" seems to catch the hero of those earlier books in the years between his difficult childhood, mostly in the Pacific Northwest, and his service in Vietnam.
Mixing elements of The Lord of the Flies and Billy Liar, Halliwell's play also caught the gulf between the hero's public assertiveness and private awareness of his own insignificance.
Though inartistically composed, these portraits of resourceful and daring heroes caught the imaginations of the Japanese, and their exploits are still prominent on the Kabuki stage.
All eyes at Trent Bridge were trained on returning Test stars Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes: except for those looking out for Aussie Ashes stalwart Peter Siddle; or perhaps local hero Samit Patel caught the eye; maybe England middle-order longshot James Taylor was worth a watch; and who wouldn't enjoy dear old Colly, still on the circuit, giving back to the county that launched his career.
Shervin Lalezary, the modest and endearing hero who caught the Los Angeles arsonist suspect on Jan . 2 won us over (all over again) on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" Monday.
In a sign that even bigger things could be yet to come for White, his comic book heroes have now caught the attention of Stan Lee, the comic book writer, editor and publisher, and the man behind Marvel heroes including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk.
The expedition had caught the public imagination, and Scott became a popular hero.
The dragon seems to get the best of Beowulf, whose hands and sword fail him: "He caught the hero/in a rush of flame and clamped sharp fangs/in the back of his neck.
Complex in its modeling and challenging to cast as a single piece, the sculpture catches the moment when the hero lifts the Libyan giant off the ground, cutting off his supply of energy from his Earth Mother Gaia, and begins to crush the life out of him.
She was, he wrote, "caught up in the hero racket".
Many filmmakers would have leaped at the textural contrast between life on the street and the sheen of unreality inside what Chandrasekaran calls Baghdad's Little America, but Greengrass is too caught up in the hero's quest to notice.
