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.

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