Super Heroes. . .For Real?

People dressed up as superheroes are making news around the globe. A group called the Black Monday Society in Salt Lake City, composed of men dressed as their characters Red Voltage, Asylum, and Nihilist, which regularly patrols in costume. A single masked crimefighter in Milwaukee, and a more sinister group of rogue cops in Milwaukee that called themselves “Punishers” and wore Punisher logo-wear. Also, over the holidays, a man dressed as the Hulk arrested in Coventry for selling cocaine in costume. The Coventry Telegraph reported the story of Scott Anderson, with a green face and Hulk costume, selling drugs to another club goer while being observed by police (whose attention was attracted by his costume). A repeat offender, he was sentenced to two years in prison last week.


It’s hard to draw many conclusions from incidents as disparate as the ones above, but one thing is clear: superheroes are starting to make a bigger impression on real life behavior by adults than they have at any time in memory.