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Article: Not everybody is crazy about Dav Pilkey's `Captain Underpants'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 27, 2000
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Adults have hated "Captain Underpants" ever since he was born in Dav Pilkey's fertile imagination, during his long exile in the school hallway.
While a second-grader at St. John's Lutheran School in Elyria, Ohio, Pilkey discovered the magical powers of "Captain Underpants" _ the superhero he created from pencil and paper could make kids laugh uproariously. Better yet, he could make adults, like his second-grade teacher, fume.
"I started stapling sheets of paper together and making Captain Underpants comic books that I would share with my friends," recalls Pilkey, who grew up in Cleveland and began spelling his first name Dav after a typo on his name tag ...