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June anniversaries momentous or merely memorable.(THIS MONTH IN HISTORY)
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COPYRIGHT 2008 Smithsonian Institution
70 YEARS AGO HERO'S WELCOME
Superman debuts in the June 1938 Action Comics No. I. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joseph Shuster, the caped superhero can "hurdle a twenty-story building" and "run faster than an express train," but can't fly unitil the 1940s (above: a 1939 leap). The pair sell the rights to Superman for...
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