Here’s 15 facts you may not know:
-Joe Dimaggio, the famous baseball player, loved comic books but was too embarrassed to buy them. He thought it would ruin his image. So, he would send teammates down to the local newsstand or drug store to pick up comics for him.
-Elvis Presley also loved reading comic books. It’s rumored that the black hair and curl he let hang down on his forehead were inspired by his favorite character, Captain Marvel, Jr.
-Michael Jackson wanted to play Spider-Man in a movie so badly that he tried to buy Marvel Comics in the 1990’s.
-In Archie Comics, Jughead has a real name, Forsythe Pendleton Jones II. His sister is named Forsythia “Jellybean” Jones.
-The Joker once served as the Iranian Ambassador for the United Nations.
-Superman once had his mind controlled by a villain named Sleez, who tricked him into recording a sex tape.
-In the 1970’s Captain America witnessed Richard Nixon committing suicide after the Watergate scandal.
-As part of his secret identity, Clark Kent compresses his spine while in disguise so he’ll appear shorter than Superman.
-When the original comic code was created it prohibited judges and law enforcement agents from being portrayed negatively.
-Batman actually had 8 different Batcaves. One was located directly under Arkham Asylum.
-There are over 20 different types of Kryptonite, including pink.
-In the 1940’s there was a hero who fought the Nazi’s called Red Bee. He used trained bees. His favorite bee was named Michael and lived in Red Bee’s belt buckle.
-Iron Man used to use roller skates that were built into his armor.
-In an alternate reality Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive sheep and became the hero Sheep-Boy.
-The actor Nicolas Cage (real name Nicolas Coppola) took the last name “Cage” from the Marvel character Luke Cage.
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