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...their own skins, reluctant superheroes who didn't always feel or act nobly. For his creations, being a superhero was a job; one Spider-Man found Spidey trying unsuccessfully to cash a check in his name (no id). With humor and an ear for the vernacular ("It's clobberin' time!"), Lee put the human in superhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Up On The Net! It's...Cyber Comics | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...raised by an electronic baby sitter. The first word he uttered was "Colgate"; the first phrase he learned to read was "The End." When he puts on his raincoat, he becomes a secret agent. When his mother presses him to finish his carrots, he mutters "it's clobberin' time" just like The Thing. When Dad takes over the set to watch football, he and his sister play Dating Game with her dolls. He doesn't climb trees; he watches Tarzan do it. At three, he spends five hours a week before the magic box. By the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audience: Video Boy | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

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