Another beautiful story out of Ben Highmore's book was the evolution in the types of superheroes and how that related to changes in the cities of those times.
In the 1930's, there was DC Comics: Batman and Superman. Both superheroes were socially remarkable types, being extremely wealthy or coming from another planet. In the 1960's, one could witness the rise of a new type of superstars, from a more ordinary and almost geeky, white collare origin. Peter Parker was bitten by a radio-active spider and became spiderman. In the same way, Fantastic Four and Daredevil, other heroes of Marvel Comics came from an ordinary background.
Coinciding with the silver age of Marvel comics is an unprecedented expansion of office space; vertical expansion in the shape of skyscrapers. With these offices came a shift from manufacturing to office works, at the same time a shift in gender patterns of work.
"In this context, Marvel's silver-age heroes, drawn from a world of white-collar work, begin to look like a compensatory fantasy of remasculinization: from feminized office-bound weakling to muscle bound hero." Along with this, the vertical and horizontal expanse of the city required fantasies of mobility for compensation. Hence, Spiderman's ability to climb the sheer walls of Manhattan's high-rise buildings and Daredevil's easy jumping and swinging around the modern city's obstacles.