T]he Lesson [comic Books] Taught Children- Or This Child, At Any Rate- Was Perhaps The Unintentionally Radical Truth That Exceptionality Was The Greatest And Most Heroic Of Value

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...[T]he lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any
rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that
exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those
who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and
that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be
concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a
'secret identity'.
-- Salman Rushdie

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