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Mr. A. is a very unusual kind of hero, in fact he's only a hero at all by unusual standards. Steve Ditko created him as an Libertarian superhero expressing his devotion to the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Mr. A. believed in an absolute standard of good and evil and showed no mercy to anyone he perceived as bad. His stories read like moral tracts and his enemies were cartoonishly evil. When Alan Moore was looking for a model for Rohr

ed like simplistic moral tracts where all A's foes were cartoonishly evil and A was always presented as right. They are absolutely free of any trace with self-doubt or mercy. It's not surprising that when Alan Moore looked for a template for his character, Rorschach, he used A and another Ditko character, the Question

Mr. A. was created and is owned by Steve Ditko.

Description
Mr. A. is a very unusual kind of hero, in fact he's only a hero at all by unusual standards. Steve Ditko created him as an Libertarian superhero expressing his devotion to the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Mr. A. believed in an absolute standard of good and evil and showed no mercy to anyone he perceived as bad. His stories read like moral tracts and his enemies were cartoonishly evil. When Alan Moore was looking for a model for Rohr

ed like simplistic moral tracts where all A's foes were cartoonishly evil and A was always presented as right. They are absolutely free of any trace with self-doubt or mercy. It's not surprising that when Alan Moore looked for a template for his character, Rorschach, he used A and another Ditko character, the Question

Mr. A. was created and is owned by Steve Ditko.