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Apr 2022
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3: We Can Be Heroes

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What’s a superhero without sidekicks? David meets the ragtag recruits who became Phoenix’s crime-fighting supergroup, the Rain City Superheroes.

The Superhero Complex is produced by Novel for iHeartRadio.

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