The Human Pyramid

I've been working my way through Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (The New Press, 2009), edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma. I read a lot of superhero comics (along with other genres) as a kid in the early 1960s, and I think I understand their appeal to me now. Other readers may have had different reasons for liking them, for as I look back I see