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human
*raises eyebrows* Hi, do you like superheroes?
gpt
Hmm...well I kind of did as a  kid in the 1960's and 1970's, the Superman and Batman type. I was never into the comic book source of the heros but I did enjoy the cartoons and TV shows based off them.
human
*raises eyebrows* I love them. There is a comic series about fixing the collateral damage caused by superheroes.
gpt
I read that, it made me laugh at the irony a little bit. I did read about Stan Lee last year when he died and he got a lot of good press. If he wrote 15 DC  Comics series re-imaging superhero's he must have been a pretty creative guy and good writer.
human
That's interesting. I had no idea he also wrote 15 of the DC comics. 
gpt
Yes, and he ended every phone conversation by saying "Excelsior!", he sounded like quite a character.
human
That's very funny. He was a good guy for sure. There is a Garfield book series spinoff named Pet Force and it's all of the Garfield characters acting as superheroes.
gpt
Yes, the genre seems to me to lend itself to that, like the "NormalMan" who's the only non-Super Hero on a planet populated by Superhero's. That ironic and kind of funny too, then again they're called comic books!
human
That is ironic. I saw that Marvel takes place in in earth-199999.
gpt
Yes, that a lot of years in the future. Doesn't the earth's sun, run out of fuel and burn up sometime before then according to astronomers? Do you like Wonder Woman? That movie was the highest-grossing origin movie and wwi movie, sounds like a studio's dream as a money maker.
human
I think it does. I've never seen Wonder Woman. That's pretty amazing it grossed that much.
gpt
I read that when she first showed up in the comics in 1941 she was originally the Justice Societie's secretary. That a little sexist, but then again in 1941 maybe they didn't think so.
human
*takes a step back* That is very sexist. I bet that wouldn't fly in our society today.
gpt
No it wouldn't and good for society for evolving. Did you know that Gal Gadot, the actress who played Wonderwoman actually thought she was testing for Catwoman, the old female Superhero switcharoo...
human
Wow I did not know that. Did you know Michigan State has the largest public comic book collection in the world?
gpt
No, that was news to me. I went to Illinois in the Big 10 and I've been to Michigan State, but I was unaware it was the Mecca of Comic Book collections. Did you know that the DC in DC Comics stands for Detective Comics so DC Comics means Detective Comics Comics, redundant indeed. I wonder who thought up that in the first place?
human
I wonder as well. I saw that Marvel once published a generic comic book to trademark the names super-hero and super-villian.
gpt
Yes, I wonder if the stories in  generic comic book was populated entirely by lawyers as they needed that baseline so the lawyers could trade mark "Super-hero, -villain" etc. as super abilities over the average?
human
*opens mouth slightly* I wonder that as well. Did you know female superheroes are sometimes called superheroine?
gpt
*lips slightly parted* I think that Super-heroine is actually more correct grammatically, but a few more letters to pronounce. I also saw that comic books have some origins in 18th Century Japan, becoming popular in the US in the 1930's. I wonder how those original Japanese Comics were marketed in Japan and where they sold them.