Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Sexualizing men in comics: "The Myth of Sexy Superman"

Depends on the artist. Sherman and Janes tended to draw every man as superman buff. I remember an issue of GL with Rayner that had him looking like a 'roid popper.

Reminds me of Veitch's Bratpack, where one of the sidekicks was doing exactly that. A good comment on how superheroes get that buffed look.

There was a mini of JLA a while back where some of the members switched bodies. Steel (John Henry) was swapped with Kyle Rayner, and Steel kept going "I'm a skinny white boy. I'm a skinny white boy." And I go, "Boy, your standards are high."

Rayner kept wondering when his steroid addiction started...

Bet it was part of Green Lantern training.

Hal Jordan couldn't afford to fall asleep as a test pilot. His amphetamine abuse started in the late 1950s. But before long his mental health began to suffer. He began to believe he had been visited by an alien calling itself Abin Sur...