BONUS: We Buy A Superhero

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🗓️ 9 May 2021

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Comic book publishers like Marvel and DC sit on a treasure trove: thousands and thousands of comic book characters. Pieces of intellectual property. You know the big ones--Superman, Ironman, Captain America. They each make millions off of movies and merchandise. But for every marquee character, there are hundreds of others sitting unused.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Audie Cornish and we've got a weekend episode for you.
0:04.4	Our colleagues at NPR's Planet Money Podcast have been known to invest in certain products
0:08.4	from time to time.
0:09.8	They've bought and sold crude oil, t-shirts, Christmas trees even.
0:13.6	But in their latest series, they, frankly, put all of those other endeavors to shame because
0:18.0	they bought a superhero.
0:20.1	And I'll just leave it at that.
0:21.8	You can find the entire five-part series at npr.org slash superhero.
0:26.7	But here's episode one to get you started.
0:28.9	And it's called Origins.
0:30.8	Planet Money Hose, Robert Smith, and Kenny Malone take it from here.
0:35.9	Hey, Christmas tree here.
0:45.7	Make a t-shirt and then file that shirt around the world as it gets made.
0:49.0	We were toxic last owners.
0:50.9	She was our pet toxic asset.
0:52.8	A hundred barrels of crude oil.
0:54.4	Three.
0:55.4	Yes, we did.
0:56.4	Two.
0:57.4	One.
0:58.4	Oh, whoa, oh my gosh.
1:01.4	This is Planet Money Studios from NPR.
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