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TIGHTS

                                             October 17, 2008
                              
If you follow the story closely,
you get the feeling that the  
men-in-tights motif was in the air.
                              
  Gerard Jones emphasises the 
  connections to physical culture
  magazines, as well as the                 MCFADDEN
  loving depiction of male bodies
  in the Tarzan comic strip.  
                              
                                 
  Early, unpublished versions of      
  Superman existed using the          
  men-in-tights motif, but then       
  "The Phantom" strip arrived on      
  the scene: clad in tights, with     Falk cited the influence of
  panties on the outside, and         Robin Hood stage productions.
  wearing a mask, as is now the               
  heroic standard.                              
                                                               Sep 2021
      Evidentally a case of                   (A defunct Robin Hood production
      independent convergence.                was one of Sun Ra's earliest 
                                              sources for costumes.)
                                    

                                  
                                  
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