S1 EP.3 – The Atlantis Problem – A Review of billionaires in comics.

The guys (Kareem, Ken, and Pat) continue reviewing billionaires in comics. Tangents include how exactly Power Girl makes money, Super boy’s weird Gambit-like abilities, James Bond sifting through red-tape to lease a new car, Aquaman’s ability to use the ‘5-second’ rule in the ocean has led to his trillion-dollar empire, and more.

Show Notes

Topic 1: Establish what constitutes a billionaire in comic and in reality.

In countries that use the short scale number naming system, a billionaire is someone who has at least a thousand times a million dollars, euros or the currency of the given country. Many national currencies have, or have had at various times, a low unit value, in many cases due to past inflation.

Topic 2: Breakdown of the four most well-known comic billionaires and if they have real world counterparts

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Topic 3: How billionaires accumulated their wealth and what they do with it.

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Topic 4: Why are billionaires necessary in comics (especially when there are gods, demons, magic, mysticism, etc)

Topic 5: Which is the better comic billionaire? Which would be the more successful real-world crossover?

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