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Wonder Woman

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Wonder-Woman.mp3 Author Eve Cech Air Date 7/7/2005 Wonder Woman Transcript “Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, strong as Hercules, and swifter than Mercury” it’s everything I wanted to be as a girl growing up in the 1950s, reading Wonder Woman comics. Along with these awe-inspiring attributes, Wonder Woman had her own, invisible […]

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Superman Arrives in Metropolis

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Superman-Arrives.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/26/2003 Superman Arrives in Metropolis Transcript It’s one of those dreams that comic book aficionados have: opening up a long-forgotten trunk in a relative’s attic and finding a pristine, if slightly musty-smelling copy of “Action Comics” No. 1, for June 1938. The cover shows […]