There's a "before Beatles" and "after Beatles". That matteers more than winning the replay.
The question that needs to be asked with any Pre-Supermahan example is,
1) Why was the word "superhero" not affixed to those characters in their time?
2) Why didn't Sherlock Holmes inspire directly the creation of other superheroes?
3) Why do people, for the most part, across the last century, did not think of Sherlock as a superhero?