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Comics expert Danny Fingeroth was a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics. He’s the author of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society (Bloomsbury) and the co-editor (with Roy Thomas) of The Stan Lee Universe (TwoMorrows Publishing). Find out more about him at www.dannyfingeroth.com.

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