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A guide to the Avengers: Collect them all

By Tom Russo

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 29, 2012

In the last several years, the spate of new-to-the-mainstream superhero movies may well have left you fumbling to remember your Iron Man from your Watchmen, your Green Lantern from your Green Hornet. And now, the fan-tastic notion of Marvel throwing together six of its heroes in a single movie, “The Avengers,” has you reeling as though you’ve just taken a haymaker from the Hulk. Here, then, is a breakdown to help you keep it all straight.

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