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“Well, like when Captain Marvel says ‘Shazam’ he turns from an ordinary guy into”—she looked at the comic on the top of the stack—“the World’s Mightiest Mortal. Captain America got shot up with some sort of secret army serum, and Superman’s super because he came from another planet. I’m not sure about Captain Midnight. But he can do nifty stuff too.”

“There are a lot of captains,” Dewey said. “Are all the heroes men?”

Suze nodded. “All the captains, yeah. Most of the others too. But there’s Wonder Woman. And Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. And Brenda Starr, but she’s boring because she’s just a reporter. Mostly she just gets rescued. Or kissed.” Suze made a face.

-- Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea, 2006