But at an age when many of his contemporaries began to lose interest in comic book heroes, his only grew.

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No wonder comic book heroes make great movie characters.

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So Lewis fired his childhood pal, Dakan, sending him off to write a Heroes comic book, and named himself chief executive in early 2003.

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All of the above aside, this is another of those step back moments where hopefully we remember that NFL players are not comic book super heroes.

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The Avengers, which sees a team of Marvel comic-book heroes team up to fight an extra-terrestrial threat, was directed and co-written by Joss Whedon, creator of the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

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But rather than the macho Norn heroes, the Asura savants manage comic relief at every turn.

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The comic book company owns the rights to such high-profile super heroes as Spider Man, Iron Man and The X-Men.

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By coincidence, photo retailer Photojojo featured a pointer on its Twitter feed today to the pop culture blog Accidental Mysteries, and a lovely spread on Camera Comics, a 1940s comic-book series glamorizing the work of historical photographers like Matthew Brady and fictional heroes like Jim Lane Insurance Investigator!

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