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Why Superman Movies Matter More Than the Comic Books
By Glen Weldon
Jun 6, 2013
Superman is an idea. Okay, fine. Technically he's an intellectual property—a set of data points slammed together by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1930s, sold for $130 to National Allied Publications (later DC Comics/TimeWarner), and subsequently transformed into a nugget of multivariously exploitable content that has netted entertainment...
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