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== World Trade Center incident ==
''Our Worlds At War'' came to a close just weeks before the attacks of September 11, 2001. In a sobering occurrence of synchronicity, ''[[The Adventures of Superman (comic book)|Adventures of Superman]]'' #596 was released one day after the attack, featuring the image of [[Lex Luthor]]'s twin LexTowers heavily damaged by alien attacks on the issue's second page. The book's writer, Joe Casey, could not have intentionally referenced the attacks on the [[World Trade Center]], as the story was written well before September, but DC acknowledged that it mirrored the devastation so vividly that they made the books returnable without penalty to retailers.[http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/714.html ICv2 News - DC Makes Adventures of Superman #596 Returnable] http://superherouniverse.com/wiki/Our_Worlds_At_War
The “Byrne Curse”
Byrne has referenced his alleged tendency to “predict” real-life events with his comic books, calling it the “Byrne Curse.”Byrne Robotics: Byrnisms In a letter to Skeptic magazine, he noted a 1977 issue of Marvel Team-Up depicting a blackout in New York, with a real-life blackout occurring the month the issue went on sale, six months after he had drawn it; an issue of Uncanny X-Men depicting a major earthquake in Japan, which again occurred in real life the month the comic was released; and an issue of Wonder Woman in which the death of the superheroine, who is an Amazon princess named Diana, is presented on the cover as a newspaper front page with the headline “Princess Diana Dies.” The issue went on sale on a Wednesday, and Britain’s Princess Diana was killed in an accident three days later.
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