Nah

It would be strange for a society to start their mythology almost two hundred years after the founding of their country.  I would say early American literature is closer, but I think the settlers brought mythology with them from wherever they came from.

Nah.  Comics aren't exclusively American.  And it's not like a reasonably large group of people actually believe (or believed) in the existence of the comic characters (save for comic characters based on figures in already existing mythologies, but that's a borderline case and beside the point anyway). 
Doesn't North America already have lots of Native American tribes with their own mythologies?

" A friend and I discussed European Mythology and Middle Eastern mythology.  We also talked about Native American Indian Mythology.  I posed the question:  Is that North American Mythology?  My friend staked the claim that American Mythology is found in every character within our Comic Books.  I agree.  How about you? "

There are a lot of American myths. Johnnie Appleseed, Davie Crockett, Bigfoot, etc. Most came about during the Revolution on through the Industrial Age.

" There are a lot of American myths. Johnnie Appleseed, Davie Crockett, Bigfoot, etc. Most came about during the Revolution on through the Industrial Age. "

" @BiteMe-Fanboy: 

Bigfoot, is that you? I'm not like the others, Bigfoot. I see through the monster coating to the gentle loner inside. I bet you have a wounded raccoon friend that you tenderly nurse back to health while you go, "Rooh! Rooh!" But in the end they shoot you, but you teach us about things. 

"

i think there is a lot of similarities between comic books and the myths of the past more so than some of our earlier literature. stories of epic adventure and epic people. it is easier to compare say Iron man to any number of armored heroes in myth than say Huck Fynn. even superman has his similarities as a powerful being coming down to earth from the sky. he is often compared to and referred to as a god. many of them also form groups or families that almost resemble pantheons. in some incarnations the justice league even sets up shop in space station orbiting the earth even. i don't think the fact that MOST people don't worship them or treat them with reverence or believed they were real really matters. when people worshiped zues and Ra they believed they were real and called their worship religion. but now we know it as myth, not real. if we were debating if comics were american religion then i would so no they are not but mythic stories of adventure and heroes good and evil and everything in between then yes there is much to compare. i think there are even classes taught on this.     

" As for Jesus... Christianity is still a practiced religion, so whether you believe in Him or not, He doesn't qualify as mythology.  While Christian beliefs have spanned a couple thousand years of history, they haven't passed into history yet. "

"Mythology is the stories of a religion, not a religion that has passed into history.  I know plenty of pagans who worship gods you would probably consider mythological.  Whether you like it or not, the new testament  is the collected mythology of Jesus."

Doesn't using books from the bible to corroborate the bible make for a circular argument?

America's Mythology is our Holidays,Religions, and Traditions.

Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, John Wayne, Chuck Norris, Sasquatch, Jersey Devil, Daniel Boone, Pecos Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Davy Crockett, Zorro, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Jesse James and the James Gang, Wyatt Earp, Butch and Sundance, Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Jedediah Smith, Grizzly Adams, Lewis and Clark, Bonnie and Clyde, Dale Earnhardt, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, John Dillinger, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigham Young, P.T. Barnum
 
 
all are just a minor part of  American mythology.

" Doesn't using books from the bible to corroborate the bible make for a circular argument? "

@Wilderness Academy:


 
As for Jesus... Christianity is still a practiced religion, so whether you believe in Him or not, He doesn't qualify as mythology.  While Christian beliefs have spanned a couple thousand years of history, they haven't passed into history yet.

Yes. We sit around all day wondering if Superman can beat Thor AS IF THEY ARE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE. Jimmy Olsen can beat Thor... all the writer has to do is say he can, but in our minds it's clear that the "real" Juggernaut is not that bs they put in the movie.

I have to agree with that, it is also probably why the comics industry has "recycled" most of the European (after all Europe is America's cradle) myths. You find in comics all the north and greek pantheon gods and lots of characters share their supernatural capabilities with the aforementioned gods or heros. I think America needs a mythology, and considering the fact that most comics heroes abide by high moral values and are willing to do good, I have really nothing against the idea of American children being inspired by such role models.

Long live to America and long live to comics.

@MrFantastic said:

Doesn't using books from the bible to corroborate the bible make for a circular argument?

Sorry, never got back to this - connectivity and financial problems kept me from the site for quite some time. I don't think it's exactly a circular argument. The Bible is a collected anthology of books/ letters by different authors, which is why I say the four gospels authenticate each other - four different authors writing about the same man. Regardless of the gospels though, Jesus has been historically authenticated by scholars. He's a fact. Simply being a real person disqualifies him from being mythology. But when I add the gospels - four different eyewitness accounts of the man's life? I've got to call it believable.

@Alladin Sane said:

I guess you're not aware that people still worship Zeus... I saw a documentary on it, which was real surprising...

I was not aware of that (other than assuming there were a few random folks who probably still believed in mythological pantheons somewhere). So I'll call my original comment "bad example." My response to MrFantastic is more what I was trying to say.

I do think 1,000 years from now, people reading about USA mythology will have a god of the sun who shoots beams of solar fire from his eyes & be super strong, weak only to green rocks, & his half brother will have the form of a bat.

When you think about it, the heroes of myth are probly just cultural super heros, and are a different type of hero just like super heroes were different from mystery men. Or the golden age from the silver age etc.

The argonaughts was just a summer crossover event.

The american god of Ice cream had no face, & his cult would kill & eat anyone who thought there were more than 31 flavors. Yet, the initiated knew of a 32nd flavor.