Prominent heroes from minority backgrounds have been rare in the comics world.
As Batgirl, the character operates primarily in Gotham City, allying herself with Batman and the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as well as other prominent heroes in the DC Universe.
Two of the most prominent lesbian heroes, The Question and Batwoman, are at DC Comics.
Cyborg, one of its most prominent black heroes, has graduated to Justice League, the company's flagship book, and female or minority characters star in at least 10 of the 52 series.
Inside the colonnade would be statues of 30 prominent Revolutionary War heroes.
"Burned out, out of money, out of ideas... seduced by salaries, comfy offices, book deals, old lefty cash and minor celebrity status, some of the most prominent early heroes of our leaderless uprising are losing the edge that catalyzed last year's one thousand encampments," unnamed authors at Adbusters wrote in a blog post this week (h/t New York Magazine).
Fuller's fingerprints are all over the villain played by Otto Kruger (an evil businessman with fascist leanings who hopes to use the paper to undermine the war effort) and are particularly prominent on the hero, played by Lee Tracy.
John Lance Jack Geogheganan, a prominent Vietnam War hero featured in the "We Were Soldiers" film, graduated from the school in 1963.
In his time, Channing's reputation as a man of letters was based on several long essay-reviews, among the first of their kind in the U.S. One took John Milton's "Treatise on Christian Doctrine" as a starting point; another, Sir Walter Scott's biography of Napoleon I, in whose career Channing saw the great social danger of taking prominent soldiers for heroes.
The first, still working in the iconographic revolutionary vein, celebrated workers and other everyday heroes; prominent in this section are Iván Cañas's straight-ahead portraits of centerarians and Enrique de la Uz's wonderfully kinetic sequence of a man harvesting sugar cane.
