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Originally posted by King Krypton:
If it wasn't Superman who kicked off the comics industry, it would have been another character.
But that character might not have been as presentable to the general public as Superman. Comics survived the censorship barrage of the 40s because of Superman. He was untouchable, and his popularity alone saved the industry. There's no guarantee that any other kind of character(like Batman, for example, which was attacked for it's alleged "homosexual connotations", among other things) could have kept it afloat.