There is something inherently libertarian about most comic-book superheroes. They are vigilantes. They wouldn't have to do what they do if the government were at all successful in protecting the innocent from the bad guys. And more than a few of them are wealthy entrepreneurs. You have to be a billionaire industrialist like Tony Stark if you are going to create the high-tech arsenal necessary to be Iron Man. And it takes the wealth of Bruce Wayne to keep the Batcave properly equipped. But some of them are more explicitly libertarian. Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man, dreamed up the first … Continue reading The Libertarian Caped Crusader