DC Comics' Best Middle-Class Dad: Martin Jordan The Father who taught his son to fly and to Dream by Dan

Martin Jordan

DC comic fathers tend to show up in different forms, like the benevolent Thomas Wayne, the rich surgeon that coddled his son, to the wise Jonathan Kent, the man who taught Superman how to be the man he became. But another defining hero would be the man called Martin Jordan.

He was an air force pilot who worked for Ferris Air, and died protec…