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Apathy Man (Jimmy Huhmiller) is a fictional comic strip hero created by door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman Shelton Holls in 1941. Holls possessed a meager dream to stop sucking, both dirt from housewives' carpets in tedious demonstrations and in a fundamental sense. Inspired by the second-rate vacuums he was loath to peddle, he conceived The Apathy Man, a hero who barely worked and had no attachments.

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  • Apathy Man (Jimmy Huhmiller) is a fictional comic strip hero created by door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman Shelton Holls in 1941. Holls possessed a meager dream to stop sucking, both dirt from housewives' carpets in tedious demonstrations and in a fundamental sense. Inspired by the second-rate vacuums he was loath to peddle, he conceived The Apathy Man, a hero who barely worked and had no attachments.
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  • Apathy Man (Jimmy Huhmiller) is a fictional comic strip hero created by door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman Shelton Holls in 1941. Holls possessed a meager dream to stop sucking, both dirt from housewives' carpets in tedious demonstrations and in a fundamental sense. Inspired by the second-rate vacuums he was loath to peddle, he conceived The Apathy Man, a hero who barely worked and had no attachments. Apathy Man was meant to be a counterpoint to the idealistic impossibility of Superman. While Superman was seen as an iconic representation of truth, justice and the American way, these concepts seemed as alien to the real American way of life as a near-perfect Kryptonian orphan wrapped in a swaddling S-cape. Apathy Man was a symbol of the middle-class condition - having long been beaned on the head by bricks falling from a crumbling facade of the American dream, counting lumps more than blessings, they are left with nothing but the vacuum of lukewarm indifference. Behind every cynic, they say, is a disillusioned idealist. Apathy Man is behind both those guys, napping in the corner.
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