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How did Supermanās increasingly powerful abilities make his stories less dramatic in the 1960s?
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Christopher Reeve in Superman (1978), directed by Richard Donner.
By the mid-1960s, Supermanās adventures became increasingly outrageous as his superpowers intensified to an extreme degree, exemplified by his use of super-ventriloquism. Because his abilities grew so vast, his enemies were no longer able to pose a credible threat to him. Consequently, his stories lost their dramatic intensity, leading to a decline in the character's popularity and a dwindling readership by the end of the decade.1