However, he added that the customer has a tremendous passion for superhero comic books and is especially fond of Superman.

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The Lion King made Taymor a superhero of the theater, but every comic-book reader knows that each superhero has specific powers.

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The canine superhero, voiced by comic actor Wally Cox, also battled villains including mad scientist Simon Bar Sinister, and a gangster wolf Riff Raff.

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Lee Lovely, the head of the Latin American division of a medical-device company, says that when it came time to design a lounge for his 13- and 15-year-old sons he took inspiration from his own favorite arcade games and comic books for a superhero-themed space.

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Spider-Man wasn't conceived as anything special -- the character first appeared in issue 15 of the Marvel title "Amazing Fantasy" -- but his popularity quickly made the superhero the subject of his own comic book, followed by several TV series and, in the 2000s, three blockbuster movies.

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Whedon pointed to 2002's "Spider-Man" as a model of a successful superhero film by staying true to the comic while also being entertaining as a movie.

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This is the best superhero movie of all time, not only a comic book film adaptation but also a war movie, a story influenced by classic literature like A Tale of Two Cities.

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Comic writer Lee assigned the rights to his superhero characters to Marvel in 1998, but after Stan Lee Media collapsed, minority shareholders of the company claimed that Lee had previously assigned those rights in a written agreement to a predecessor company of Stan Lee Media.

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Comic fans recognize Cooke from his past success in the superhero genre, putting his own creative spin on icons like Batman, Catwoman, The Spirit and Watchmen.

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