Dude, you have no idea how MUCH I want to read this issue!! Why??A) Of course, there's the mystery reason Kal-El must use "all his superpowers" (really? Super-ventriloquism, too?) to prevent the song from becoming a hit. Aren't you dying to know it? Don't you just know that it's something ridiculously silly? Like, somehow it gives away his secret ID? Or somehow, the words and notes of the song just coincidentally mean something else in some alien tongue and will cause an alien invasion? Or somehow the song violates a pledge Superman made to Pa Kent? Then again, knowing DC, the cover is probably inaccurate, and Supes doesn't have to stop the song at all...
B) Pat Boone. I mean, Pat Boone. Somehow, I doubt "using all my super powers" means beating the crap out of Pat Boone or stranding him in the past, but we can hope.
C) The barely concealed arrogance of Superman assuming that any song about him will become a hit. Ego much?
D) The comically misdrawn guitar Pat is playing on the cover. I love you, Curt Swan, but is that a ukulele? Piano and ukulele duets must have been quite the rage in 1959. Or is Pat Boone a giant (or is the song itself mutating him??)?
E) Really, would putting Pat Boone on your cover move a lot of extra comics for you 1959? If so, that explains a heckuva lot about my parents' generation...
F) Then again, a mere 4 months after this issue appeared, Pat did get his own DC comics series...really!! So maybe he did move some issues...It lasted only 5 issues, but look at the clean-cut goodness!!
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