C Superheroes

"Rcn<l r he art icle quickly and mat ch h eadings 1-5 with para graphs A-E.

1 A diffcrcnl ki nd of superhero......C...... 4 An im portanl momen t

2 Stan's most famous superhero..........

3 Il ow Lieberma n beca me Lee......

5 After Marve l omics..........

Word format ion (3): word families (1) and (2) 6E!J l'lEIJ

Fill in t he gaps in t h e article wit h t h e correct for m of t he words i n brackets. Use a verh, nou n or adjective.

A Stan Lieberman was born in

New York in 1922. He joined the family publishing business, limely Publications. in 1939. Stan had a fantastic 1 •..imrJgi.r:uHi.Qf.1....!imagine) and for the next twenty years,

Stan wrote thousands of

B By 40, Stan had decided he was too old to write comics. His wife

suggested writing stories about the

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(preferl. And then a rival* comic came up with a group of superheroes which included Superman. Batman and Wonder Woman. Stan took his wife's advice and in 1961 he

........................ (create) The

Fantastic Four with the cartoonist, Jack Kirby.

C Until that time, superheroes had been 'perfect' people. And for Stan. their adventures were 6......................................... {predict)

because nobody could hurt them. The Fantastic Four were different. The group had the same problems we all have. Two characters were engaged and they often fell out,

for example. Another character

was always depressed. The Fantastic Four were a huge success and

D A year later Stan and cartoonist Steve Oitko published their first story about a young boy who was bitten by a spider. Peter Parker lor Spider-Mani is a typical.

money problems. The character was immediately 9 _................ (succeed). A copy of the first Spider­ Man comic in good condition now costs about $30,000.

E In the early seventies Lee finally retired from publishing comics. The company - now called Marvel Comics - had become the most

comic book publisher in the world and was selling 50 million comics

a year. Recently Stan has had small

$1.6 billion in ticket sales. And at the moment he is planning new heroes - including a cartoon whose voice will be provided by Ringo Starr from the Beatles.

*ri\'Cll = a person or group in cmnpctilion with others for t he same thing

£} A rc r h csc sent ences trne (T), false (F) or t he article doesn 't say (OS)?

1 [I] Stan Lee invented pider-Man, The Fa ntastic s 0The first Spidcr-:vla n story n ppcarcd in 1962.

Fou r and Bat man. 6 0 Peter Pa rker never had nny mone y.

Z 0 He cha nged h i.-; na me beca use i t wasn't 7 0At fi rst pi<ler-Ma n wasn't a popu lar cha racter.

glamorous enough. 8 0 La n stopped inventing comic characters i n 1he seven t ies.

3 0 I a n's wife had t he idl'a for The ra n1as1 ic Four. 9 0 Sta n ea rned over 1.5 million f rom t he pider-\fan films.

4 0 The f-an tasl ic Four were all from the sa me fa mil): ('y

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