![]() ![]() ![]() There probably are earlier novels in which heroes go out and do heroic deeds in secret, but The Scarlet Pimpernel has all the trappings of the modern superhero genre: a rich playboy who maintains a shallow public persona to conceal his secret identity, that of a masked hero who leaves a calling card to mock his enemies. Many classics claim the title of "first vampire novel" or "first science fiction novel" and so on, but The Scarlet Pimpernel may be the first superhero novel. Until the day her own brother is taken prisoner. Having been told that his own wife was an informer who delivered an aristocrat into the hands of the Committee, the Scarlet Pimpernel must keep his identity and work a secret while he struggles against the love he feels for her. ![]() At each rescue, he leaves his calling card: a small, blood-red flower - a pimpernel - mocking the power of Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety. The Scarlet Pimpernel makes daring raid after daring raid into the heart of France to save aristocrats condemned to the guillotine. Perhaps the most famous alias of all time, The Scarlet Pimpernel hides the identity of a British nobleman who, masked by various disguises, leads a band of young men to undermine the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. Inverarity An 18th century Bruce Wayne rescues French aristocrats from Madame la Guillotine.įirst published in 1903. ![]()
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