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Heroes and Survivors

By Joshua Rothkopf

Consider the list of unlucky opponents to face the torrent of words and blows that was Cassius Clay, later, defiantly, Muhammad Ali in his extended prime—Liston, Frazier, Foreman, terrifying pummelers all—and you just might forget The Man of Steel. Ali drops Superman, cape and caboodle, in that most-hoarded 1974 issue of DC Comics, where reality evicts myth from its own halls… return to article

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