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	"Bruce Wayne's first name came from Robert Bruce, the Scottish patriot. Wayne, being a playboy, was a man of gentry. I searched for a name that would suggest colonialism. I tried Adams, Hancock ... then I thought of Mad Anthony Wayne" - Bill Finger
	"Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies' man and finally a nutcase." Iron Man's inspiration according to Stan Lee

14.03.2008

by James Bacon

Two superheroes that have quite a bit in common (except their publishing stables) and who have no real super powers at all. They weren’t bitten by a nuked creature or blighted with some deforming mutation, nor do they come from another planet; they are just men. Intelligent men, who have used their ingenuity to devise methods for gaining abilities beyond the norm, but they remain just men.

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