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The Secret Origins of Marvel | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer

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The DC Documentary: A Corporate Propaganda

There's so many figures in comics that are fascinating and that we do not have good history of. Larry Hammer, who's still with us, is like clearly the most interesting man in the world. He had to feel like a great figure for a profile and feature length interview. And so it is disappointing. I also mentioned, you know, like DC and Marvel are two rival companies and they're often in competition.DC has their own documentary, which is available on HBO Max. So bad.I wouldn't recommend it as a good documentary,. It does acknowledge that Siegel and Schuster, the creator of Superman, Gatto Ra Dio, didn't even get credit for the character

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