Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 161 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the way that real life legal principles would apply to comic book superheroes,

and I'm joined by two guests.

So first up we've got James Daly, an attorney who works for the Washington University in St. Louis Center for Empirical Research in the Law.

He's also the creator and co-author of the blog Law in the Multiverse and co-author of the book The Law of Superheroes.

So James, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

And also joining us today is Brad Denoyer. He's an associate teaching professor at the University of the University of the University, where he earned his law degree and where he also teaches a course on comic books to undergrads. Prior to teaching he wrote some Batman related stories for DC Comics and he's

also contributed to James's blog Law in the Multiverse. So Brad welcome to the show.

Hey thanks for having me. And I also just want to thank

listener Benjamin Kiel for helping to inspire this panel.

So Benjamin, thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy the episode.

Okay, and so first of all, I'm just curious about how you guys got into comics in the first place.

So James, won't we start with you and have you just tell us a bit about your background as a comic book

fan?

Sure.

I grew up watching as a kid, the old Adam West Batman series I'm not old enough to have seen it

when it ran originally but as as reruns and that's one of the first comic book

related things I can remember and I remember going with my older brothers to the comic book shop around the time of the

death of Superman storyline and the the Dark Night series of the where Batman has

back broken by Bain.

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