A cartoon illustration of a surprised man exclaiming and pointing at an airplane window where Superman is waving with a bird sitting on his lap. Caption reads "Look! It's a bird! In a plane! With Superman!!!"
Nicolas Cage always wanted to be a superhero. Not surprisingly, his stage name (his real surname is Coppola, since he is the nephew of the director) comes from Marvel’s strongman Luke Cage. As if that weren’t comic-bookish enough, his son is named Kal-El (like Superman). His collection of 400 classic comics included the first Action Comics, which he bought for $150,000, someone stole at a party and which later got sold for $15 million. Hollywood’s most singular superstar still couldn’t be Tim Burton’s Superman, and although he settled for the skull-faced Ghost Rider, at age 62 Cage finally gets the chance to play another great: the new television Spider-Man. There is, however, a twist in his Spider-Noir: this wall-crawler is also a detective in 1930s New York.
For the better part of a century, Superman has been one of the most recognizable fictional characters in any form of media. After Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster brought the Man of Steel to life in the pages of Action Comics#1, it wasn't long before his popularity skyrocketed. Within a decade, the character had been adapted to live action, headlined a popular radio program, and could be found in not just the pages of comic books, but newspaper strips as well. With all that being said, arguably the best take on DC Comics' famed "Champion of the Oppressed" came in the form of an Academy Award-nominated short film that first brought Superman to the big screen.
James Gunn understands fan service. The DC Studios Co-chairman and Co-CEO and director of the forthcoming Superman film Man of Tomorrow gave die hards new look at at old favorite: Lex Luthor’s purple and green war suit, which enables him to fight on a more level playing field with the Man of Steel. The suit, […]
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