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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Superman changes meet mass media
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 19:07:00 EST
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> A local radio station ran a brief item this morning
> on the 'revitalization' of Superman.  It sounded like
> DC had held a press conference announcing the change,
> which was picked up by the 'source' news network.
> 
> Highlights:
> Noel Neill voicing her regrets on tampering with an
> American legend.
>  
I doubt she knows what happened with the character over the last 30 years
or what exactly Byrne is planning to do. I think the Byrne Superman will
be much closer to the TV Superman than the 3-times-as-powerful-as-God
version of the 60's through present is.

> 
> Addendum (from the Wash. post)
> ..."The new Superman is no big deal, said Dim Shooter,
> editor in chief of Marvel, who wrote Superman himself
> in the '60s.  Editors were stricter then, Shooter
> said, but now 'creative anarchy' reigns at DC Comics".

"Creative anarchy"? Sounds like a compliment to me! Glad to see the Shooter
acknowledges that DC, in contrast to Marvel, is creative.

			Scott McEwan
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