>>102762992You misunderstand me, friend. I was answering OP's written question instead of his unspoken one.
To reiterate, he asked why there aren't many right-wing capes. This is because comics started being worked on by (at the time) left wingers who adopted pulp action and sensibilities into something else, something a bit more colorful and symbolic. It was a hit and the creators, being good capitalists, focused on what sold; it was kids stuff so politics were vague "Love america, be good to each other." stuff for the most part. Not bad lessons, but simple ones.
More adult comics were crushed by the comics code, which was largely encouraged by the major publishers at the time for fear of an adult market crowding them out of the industry, by the way.
Then came the Bronze Age, and thanks to Marvel, the demographic changed from pre-teens to teens, who responded well to stories with a little more...drama. Questions like "What DOES Green Arrow think about the welfare state?" rose, and capes got opinions based on what made exciting character dynamics; stuffy cops Barry and Hal got a crazy liberal best friend, Ollie, so they could bounce off of each other. Overt republicanism was rarely seen as heroic at the time because of the inescapable shadow of Richard Nixon.
Comics hasn't really changed as far as how they show politics since then; heavy handed, for the most part, because everything in cape comics is heavy handed because the format and the characters are larger than life, and nuance rarely gets headlines. Compare today's tripe to the Bronze Age classics like "Speedy's suddenly riding the white dragon" and "I guess Kid Flash hates black people?".
Cape books can and often do have EMOTIONAL nuance, I should specify, but I don't often see political or social nuance unless it's about a fictional group, like the Inhumans's post-modern monarchy and their collective guilt over a way of life imposed on them by the Kree but central to their culture.
