Joe Magarac: The Other Man of Steel
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Dylan. Hi. How's it going? Hi, Alexa. I had a question for you. Are you a superhero person? Like, do you keep up with Marvel and DC universes? You know, I think I probably suffer a little bit from the same fatigue that most people have at this point. But the honest truth is like, yeah. Like, as a kid, I collected superhero cards. |
| 0:22.6 | I still have my binder of superhero trading cards, and I still look at them with my |
| 0:29.3 | nine-year-old son on a relatively regular basis. |
| 0:32.3 | So, yeah, I guess I am kind of a superhero person. |
| 0:36.6 | Wow, that's amazing. Do you have a favorite? When I was a kid, I was I am kind of a superhero person. Wow, that's amazing. |
| 0:37.6 | Do you have a favorite? |
| 0:38.7 | When I was a kid, I was really into Gambit because that was a, he's an X-Men. |
| 0:43.0 | And he, he like came out while I was like a kid collecting comics. |
| 0:48.3 | So I was like, oh, this is like the new Wolverine. |
| 0:51.5 | I like saved up like 30 bucks. |
| 0:53.6 | And I went and bought a first appearance of Gambit |
| 0:56.7 | comic, which is today worth almost certainly less than $30. |
| 1:04.8 | So you are, you're not a casual superhero person. And so then, as you know, there's a, |
| 1:10.0 | there are ton of characters in |
| 1:11.4 | those universes yes and some of them were inspired by real things in real life and i bring this up |
| 1:18.8 | because there's this very specific bad guy in one of these issues from 1977 and the issue is called |
| 1:25.7 | captain marvel fights the man of steel. |
| 1:28.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:28.7 | And not, so not Superman. |
| 1:30.1 | Not Superman. |
| 1:31.1 | No, this is an alternative Superman because Captain Marvel, he's in Pittsburgh, of course. |
| 1:39.4 | Naturally, where you spend your time as a superhero, totally. |
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