After spending 2008–2012 working in sports media, I had built a successful pro football news website, with the support of a great staff, which then had its branding acquired by a large company. I also worked editorial high up in the food chain at BleacherReport.com before I had a realization that while I did love covering football — a sport I have followed since I can remember athlete posters on several of my bedroom walls as a kid — my true passion was not to cover football.
So I left all those football dreams behind me and I decided to start a little news website covering what was really my favorite topics of interest... comic book movies and Star Wars. Thus, this website (formerly known as SuperHero Authority back then) was born on February 27, 2012.
Several months after I launched the site, I decided I liked a different website name and branding better and that's when the site changed to DailySuperHero.com. Since then, it has been quite a ride going from testing different website layouts and formats to the news website you see here today.
But things really got going for the site in 2013 when Marvel Studios decided to shoot the majority of CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLIDER here in my home town of Cleveland. I was on the front lines watching the public production shoots in the streets almost every day for a month. I was even the one who took the first set photo of the Winter Soldier that revealed the first look at his bionic arm. (Image below.)
It was a great moment for my little website to be the first to capture this image. I do have to admit to being in the right spot at the right time and I was actually doing something on my phone, not paying attention to what was happening on the set, when I glanced up to see the Winter Soldier climbing onto the vehicle. I reached for my camera and took pictures. Right after I took them, I immediately left the spot I was in to post the images online as fast as possible. When I returned, Marvel Studios security had a person planted in the exact spot where I took the photos. They were definitely on-point monitoring what was being posted online by securing those spots and angles.
Since then, DailySuperHero.com has went through several other changes including an updated logo as well as bringing on a fantastic group of television beat writers who are so committed to their respective work covering shows each week. I don't have to give them much direction which helps me to cover and write up all the daily news as I've done since 2012. I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate each and every one of the site's writers, as well as everyone who I have reached out to for consultation and advice, over the past five years.
One of the biggest moments in the website's history was in early 2015 when DailySuperHero.com began being recognized as a legit news website by the biggest conventions and expos. Even now we continue to receive press access for San Diego Comic-Con International, New York Comic Con, Disney's D23 Expo, Star Wars Celebration, various Wizard World Comic Cons, Toy Fair New York, E3 and others. We may not have the big connections with studios (yet) to get press invites for set visits, but it is only a matter of time until that becomes a reality (fingers crossed).
In closing, and to not make this too long-winded, I just want say thank you to all the readers and social media followers of DailySuperHero.com. Without your daily reads, retweets and shares across the Internet we would not be celebrating this milestone today.
Cheers to the next five years!
Sincerely,
Daniel Wolf, DailySuperHero.com Founder & Publisher