Maximo, the Amazing Superman
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Maximo, the Amazing Superman is one of the few fictional characters that originated in a Big Little Book. The character, fully named Maximo Miller, first appeared in 1940, in a self-titled Big Little Book. Some copies of this book give authorship credit to Victor Appleton, the Stratemeyer Syndicate house name that was credited as the writer of the Tom Swift books. Other editions were credited to Russell R. Winterbotham, who was probably the true creator of the character. Maximo is believed to have been created in response to the popularity of DC Comics' Superman, and is one of the few Superman knockoffs that did not provoke legal action from DC, even though the publisher was brazen enough to use the descriptive word Superman in block text on the covers of his books.
Maximo is a football hero at a college in the American southwest, but is also a hero off the field, thanks to his powers over electromagnetism and gravity and his ability to instantly hypnotize others. His powers are atributed to him being a mutant with a brain far more evolved then that of normal men.
