Comic Books and Wall Street

Newsday.com has an interesting article about the man behind the recent rescue of insurance conglomerate AIG, Eric Dinallo. What was behind the public servants move to help rescue AIG and also helped post 9/11 New York? Spider-Man. Dinallo quotes the famous saying from Amazing Fantasy #15, "With great power there must also come great responsibility." Turns out Dinallo is a comic book fan, sporting Avengers action figures on his desk and thinking of himself in terms of what comics have taught him saying, "I do admit there are the sort of moral and first principle themes in comic books that I find kind of simple truths for when you are serving the public..." I know I have learned a great deal about morals, purpose, and heroism from comic books, my main favorite being Captain America. People are attracted to comic book characters for all sorts of reasons, even the ones that are borderline villains, the comics of today are filled with heroes. These values of goodness and light come up over and over in the world of comic books and can be seen in guys like Dinallo who are trying to leave the world a better place than they found it.