The world knows him better as Superman, the Man of Steel, the leader of the Justice League, and the most well-known hero in the DC Comics Universe. Blessed with the powers of a demigod ...

Binns' heroic actions aboard the "Republic" helped make these "wireless boys" pop-culture heroes. Sam, a high school junior, established his headquarters in a scallop shack behind the family barn.

Here are more ways King Tut has shaped pop culture over the last century ... the adventure pulp magazines of the 1920s and ‘30s. Heroes traveling to “exotic” locales often found themselves ...