USA seems to be very high-school obsessed generally. It seems that there really is a strong nostalgia for a time when you had time and ambition and potentially could be anything and were finding your real self and navigating your first relationships. Also, I wonder if comics used to be solely of interest to teenage boys at some point decades ago and it was much more successful to write stories they could relate to. Older readers would be able to relate to a time they’ve lived through anyway.

Teenage stories have a place, but I agree it’s way overdone. I enjoy the more grown up superheroes a lot more. Peter Parker is much more interesting when he’s an adult. Daredevil is much more interesting for being a working lawyer and this complementing his superhero work.