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> > Current ads in UK magazines, for Spiderman 3, have a quote
> > from an early 60's Spiderman comic:
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> > 'With great power comes great responsibility...
> > This is my gift, my curse...
> > Who Am I? I am Spiderman'
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> > (Not being a big fan of Spiderman, I had never seen/heard
> > this before).
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> > I think Jim may have been slightly influenced by this, for
> > The Graveyard Shift, although his 'Maybe it's a gift,
> > maybe it's a curse, but I see it all...' is just as good,
> > if not better??
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> Chronology, chronology. What came first, Graveyard Shift
> or the tag line? Graveyard Shift.
Okay, 60's comic, right? 2001's song. chronology is one is after the other. But, there is to my thinking a difference between there being an existence of something, and a use of something. I think that there are many things that are hybrids between blessings and curses. I am inclined to think that Spiderman did not originate the phrase. So, there is an element of synchronicity, if not inter-influence. Spiderman and Batman are both comics of similar veins, the super heros. It is clear that someone liked what Jim did and ran with it, being as it was already in existence in the Spiderman legacy, and maybe Jim felt it could fit in Batman because of the superheroes theme. But personally he is not alienated from the concept.
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