We Buy A Superhero 1: Origins

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Marvel has 7,000 characters, many of them forgotten. We want to buy one from their vault and launch our own little Planet Money franchise. | Find the full Planet Money Superhero series here.

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0:00.0	The end
0:07.0	Hey, Christmas tree here!
0:09.0	Make a t-shirt and then file that shirt around the world as it gets made.
0:13.0	We were toxic last owners. She was our pet toxic asset.
0:17.0	A hundred barrels of crude oil.
0:18.0	Three.
0:19.0	Yes we did.
0:20.0	Two. One.
0:21.0	We have ignition.
0:22.0	Oh, whoa, whoa! Oh my gosh!
0:25.0	This is Planet Money Studios from NPR.
0:37.0	Okay, so let me just pull this out of the plastic sleeve.
0:45.0	Okay, here we go.
0:48.0	Planet Money buys a superhero.
0:53.0	Issue 1.
0:55.0	Page 1.
1:00.0	Our comic book opens inside a deep mine in the country of Sicovia.
1:09.0	Men and women are working with headlamps and picks.
1:14.0	Come on, we need to find 10 characters by nightfall.
1:20.0	These are the superhero minds of Marvel Comics, where the company's old intellectual property lies under the earth.
1:35.0	I found one.
1:36.0	We zoom in on one miner digging out an old comic book from the ground.
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