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FOUND: Can superheroes kill the evolving morality of superman batman and wonder woman - You Need To See This

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The earliest version of Superman was straight-up evil.

Before Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the character to DC, they were a pair of 1930s high school students with a fanzine called Science Fiction, which featured a dystopian short story called “The Reign of the Superman.” It wasn’t really about the Superman we know, but instead, a man who becomes evil after acquiring superpowers.

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