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Comics lost me when the villains got to be so titanic, so (literally) galactic that really no combination of human effort could stop them and it was only intervention from god(s) like the Silver Surfer that people gained victory

Hmm. Is this a reference to Galactus? He appeared in 1966, so you've been off superhero comics for 45 years in spite of being that big of a Fantastic Four fan as you claim? And Norrin Radd was not a "god" in the comics at all (and was quite powerless compared to his master Galactus), although Thor was supposed to be (i.e. one of the Aesir)—his debut was in 1962.

And Superman, who appeared way back in 1932, was a space alien from planet Krypton—not human at all!

Glactus was just one, and yes, the FF flirted with him, but also the "Infant Terrible," and no, I haven't been "off" comics that long---gave up probably in the 1980s (though as a serious collector I gave up when I was broke in the rock band in the early 1970s. But I had a great collection of X-Men, Avengers, FF, and Spiderman, all (except Avengers) dating to #1.

Correct, SS was not a "god," but sure seemed to have god-like powers. The point was, no longer could humans defeat the enemy. Now it required alien intervention. As for Superman, never a fan, but his appeal was almost entirely that he was viewed---and operated---as a HUMAN and took on the mantle of the USA.