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This Is the 1st Superhero to Be Honored With a Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: There are more than twenty seven hundred stars and the
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Speaker 2: Hollywood Walk of Fame, and most of them honor real people,
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Speaker 2: many household name entertainers from the worlds of film, TV,
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Speaker 2: and radio, and there's even a few fictional characters as well,
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Speaker 2: from Big Bird to Mickey Mouse. But believe it or not,
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Speaker 2: there wasn't a single superhero on there until now eighty
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Speaker 2: five years after his debut. Batman is the first, and
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Speaker 2: the Walk of Fame committee found the perfect place for
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Speaker 2: his star beside Adam West, who played the Dark Knight
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Speaker 2: on the nineteen sixties Batman TV show, and Bob Kaine,
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Speaker 2: who co created the character. So it's fitting that Batman
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Speaker 2: will be the first superhero to be honored by Hollywood
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Speaker 2: since he's been such a massive presence in the movie industry.
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Speaker 2: Batman has earned more than six point eight billion dollars
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Speaker 2: at the box office over the years, good enough for
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Speaker 2: the tenth most successful franchise of all time in cinematic history.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood