Why is a character worth six films, cartoon series, TV series, comic books and everything else that endures?
Levitz: Well, I believe that there is a prejudice and an objective answer to that. If you look back over the last sixty five years or so – I guess that ‘Superman’ was published in ’38 and so sixty seven years or so. So out of those sixty seven years I think that there’ve been about fifteen where there hasn’t been a new ‘Superman’ creative work in whatever one of the dominant medium of the time was. He was a radio show for eleven or twelve years. He was a television series for about nine. The serials. The theatrical cartoons. Objectively speaking you have at least three generations that love ‘Superman’ when he was done well and we’re starting on a fourth. I think that when you look at anything that’s been able to transcend the time in which it was born most creative properties are of a moment. They capture something in the zeitgeist and it works with that moment and then it disintegrates very quickly in the culture. No matter how important ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ was at the moment it was t
