A childhood without Superman: growing up in Cuba before Obama One year after the revolution triumphed in Cuba, Superman comics were banned from the island. The now renowned Cuban novelist Pedro Juan Gutierrez, who started reading thanks to the Marvel superhero, remembers how the fight against "US imperialism” deprived him of the adventures of Clark Kent, yet hopes Cuba will always have "intelligent people" to resist "the American way of life". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES