Have you ever wished your father was a superhero? That secretly, when you weren’t looking, good old Dad was sneaking out at night to fight crime, or save the world from evil aliens?
Comic books, from Western superhero comics to Japanese manga, are filled with such dads, and while many tend to be mere supporting characters that don’t do much beyond fleshing out their kids’ backstory, others, like Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben and Superman’s Jonathan Kent, helped shaped their charges’ lives and turn them into the upstanding superheroes they are today.