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Superman adventures. Volume 4
\"Witness Superman's epic battle with Doctor Fate. See if robotic toys take over the world! Gawk as Bizarro and Lobo wreak havoc on Metropolis. Find out if Jimmy Olsen can save Superman from Darkseid!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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GOTHAM CITY IN THE SHADOW OF SEPTEMBER 11 A four-page special looks at how the Caped Crusader's reputation is set to be restored by an intelligent film which taps in to the American psyche
American cinema has been littered with the corpses of comic-book movies played for laughs: camp, four-colour travesties like Dick Tracy, The Phantom, The Shadow and, most famously, Joel Schumacher's abysmal Batman flick back in 1997. Batman and Robin, starring George Clooney and the current Reich Chancellor of California, was so dire, so greedy, so insulting to the dignity of human beings everywhere and such woeful bloody bollocks, it actually managed to do the one thing that neither Joker nor Penguin could do after five decades of trying: it put Batman on the critical list for eight entire years. It's hard to believe now, when every A-list star is lining up to try on a pair of hot-pants for size, but back in 1997 Batman And Robin seemed to drive a stake through the very heart of superhero cinema. The comicbook industry had been devastated by venture capitalists and editorial mismanagement and the movies just seemed to be one super-turkey after another. Thus, as you can imagine, a low-budget picture called Blade, based on a Marvel Comics character nobody had ever heard of, hardly generated much advance heat. And yet David Goyer and Stephen Norrington's little vampire superhero flick, starring action-hero Wesley Snipes, made over dollars-150 million dollars at the domestic box office and paved the way for two successful sequels, an upcoming television series . . . and the resurgence of superheroes on the big screen. The buzzword, again, was verisimilitude. Created in 1939 by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, Batman tells the story of billionaire Bruce Wayne, who, after seeing his parents gunned down, embarks on a quest for justice. Although this formative aspect of Batman's biography has been curiously underexplored from his numerous silver and small-screen outings, Batman Begins takes all the interesting background details that were glossed over in earlier incarn-ations and expands them with relish. Wisely ditching the cheesy one-liners and cheapo directors, Warner Brothers have opted instead for the same magic formula that made other recent superhero flicks such a success, right down to hiring Blade scriptwriter Goyer to handle the screenplay.
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Superman by Mark Millar
\"The Justice League of America and the military declare war on Superman! Starring Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash (Wally West), Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), Martian Manhunter and more classic DC characters. Will Superman be able to end the war? Then, a genius weapons designer comes to the aid of Boss Moxie, creating an unbelievable menace in the form of a 50-foot robot lobster for the Man of Steel! Who saves Superman? In stories that predate his work on such hits as Kick-Ass, Wanted, The Authority and The Ultimates, now legendary scribe Mark Millar takes on the Man of Steel in this anthology collection of tales.)\"-- Provided by publisher.
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