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Thrilling Tales: The Story of Marvel

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Marvel has stumbled as a company many times throughout its history, even going bankrupt in the 1990s. But not unlike many of its characters, it’s re-emerged stronger than before. Podcast production by Jess Miller and Cleo Levin. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Dear Prudence and Slow Burn. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Show The old is always is 18 and 5 years old

0:15.0

30 years old, lost to men and culture in happen and

0:19.0

be right for a hair house for the wrongs.

0:22.0

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0:25.8

off luf hans a group ponged careers

0:29.0

shmaya Williams has been into comic books since she was six years old when she saw that first Spider-Man movie

0:34.1

starring Toby McGuire.

0:36.2

When I got back I raided my older brothers just he had tons of comic books.

0:41.4

He had from Watchman to Spider-Man to all these different, you know, range of comics and I would just go read them even though, you know, I could barely read. I was just still looking at the pictures,

0:54.1

flipping through and seeing all the different things

0:56.2

and I just, I loved it.

0:57.8

And I've followed it ever since.

1:02.1

When people talk about the stereotypical comic book nerd,

1:05.0

Shamaya maybe isn't who they picture.

1:07.0

She's not a Gen X white guy.

1:08.6

She's a black woman in her 20s.

1:10.8

But our superhero era, which in many ways began with that Spider-Man movie, has swept up millions,

1:16.7

maybe even billions of people from every walk of life.

1:20.3

Comic book characters have become the most reliably sellable subjects in modern entertainment,

1:24.7

appealing to all sorts of demographics all over the world.

1:29.2

When I was growing up, people used to make fun of people, know that were like nerds and you know read

1:34.8

comic books and now it's normalized now everyone's watching Marvel movies and it's

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