The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident.
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- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: January 8, 1970
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