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Copyright © 2016 by Benny Potter, Dan Rumbles and Jason Keen
Published by Mango Media Inc.
Front and Back Cover, Interior Design, Theme and Layout: Roberto Núñez
Illustrations: Elina Diaz
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ISBN 978-1-63353-342-4
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“Please don’t make the super suit green… or animated!”
Deadpool
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Contents
Nicolas Cage’s Superman Reborn49
A Final Look Behind The Cape66
Batman Forever And Ever And Ever85
The One With The Legendary Joker Performance 101
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A Final Look Behind The Cowl113
Marvel Before It Was Marvel115
Starting To Figure It Out (X-Men)141
Blowing The Competition Away (Iron Man) 149
Captain America (Yup, One More Time)163
The Winning Formula (The Avengers) 167
From The Pages to the Big Screen179
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Foreword
I must’ve been three years old when my father brought home that damned inflatable Batman. That godforsaken sack of grey and blue plastic. I’m sure my father meant well. I mean, I was a boy, and that was Batman. It made sense! My memory of receiving the toy is faint, but what he did with it later is as crystal clear as if it happened yesterday. You see, I was a mischievous little one, and I just couldn’t live without perusing my father’s cabinet of cassette tapes. It didn’t matter how great the band was—Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dire Straits, The Beatles—if that shiny brown tape could be removed, I was going to make sure my parents found me with it all of its inside contents strewn across the entire room.
I don’t blame my father for what he did, if I found my child destroying my film collection, I certainly wouldn’t react calmly. But still, the image of that inflatable Batman COMING ALIVE is burned into my brain.
Of course, it didn’t really come to life. But at that age, I was positive that when I crawled over to my father’s cabinet, opened it, and Batman popped out… I was witnessing the demonic possession of an inflatable superhero.
My devious father had realized that the most effective way to keep me from getting into his