The Extraordinary Magic of Ordinary People with author Brad Meltzer
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Yeah. After Superman came out It's nineteen thirty eight. Hitler's encroaching and World War Two is encroaching on our shores. And two Jewish seventeen year old kids.
are the ones who come up with the idea of Superman. And it sells a million copies and no one can understand why. So what does everyone immediately do is they start making more heroes that have capes and that look like him and have muscles, but nothing sells like Superman. And why? Because they don't have Clark Kent. They're missing that key ingredient. The key ingredient is not the heat vision or the powers of the things are lifting a car over your head.
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