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Article: 'Iron Man' epitomizes height of comic complexity

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May 4, 2008
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Not the typical superhero, Iron Man is one of the last to join the ranks of the Marvel comic movie trend.

The Marvel Comics explosion of the 1960s was a period of unparalleled creativity in what had been a scoffed-at, lowbrow medium. Editor Stan Lee took comic-book heroes and added the gravitas of Freudianism, the cultural sang-froid of traditional mythology and the pell-mell, personal-crisis-driven storytelling arcs of television soap operas and transformed the lowly comic book -- in the language of the era -- into something relevant.

Transforming these visions into films was guaranteed cheese until the advent of digital film effects; suddenly, these impossible ...

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