1970s

Buzz and controversy have been swirling around Wonder Woman a lot these days. The politics of retcons and reboots have thrown interested parties into an absolute tizzy over the lineage, age, and even the fashion sense of the original super-heroine...

While the Spider-Man musical hovers in the theater version of production hell alongside the floating head of Bono, another superhero musical has surfaced on the internet: "It's a Bird.. It's a Plane... It's Superman!" All 90 minutes of the 1975 TV special (based on the 1966 Broadway show) are now online...

Creators have been thinking up all-new superheroes for decades, and the fact that many of our iconic heroes came out of the '30s, or '60s, and yes, even the '70s, is a big part of why they need to get updated once in a while. Still, there are some characters that never quite manage to transcend their origins, and as much as I love Dazzler -- I love her -- she is a distinct product of 1970s cultur