Friday, October 24, 2008

Friday Night Fights--Mystery Guest Star Style!!

This week's Friday Night Fights, sadly, contains no roller derby. Instead, we get a special mystery combatant. No, I'm not spoiling anything--it's right there on the cover!!

70's DC covers--required by law to contain at least two questionsSo who is the precocious youth kicking the crap out of the Lad of Steel?? Just wait for it...

Our story starts when our little titian-haired moppet is drowning at summer camp. Fortunately for her, Clark Kent is one of the camp counselors, and:

Nerd alert:swimming with glasses?!?!Her older brother, also a counselor, decides she needs to be punished, and she's pretty damned grumpy about it.

Pouting leads to super-powers!!Oh, that's right, this is Silver Age DC, so of course Clark just happens to be carrying one of Mordru's captured magic crystals in his cape pocket, and just happens to be walking by exactly when our mystery guest makes her wish:

This kind of shit happened every single day in the Silver Age...Later, as the counselors play the "let's scare the shit out of the young 'uns by pretending to be ghosts game," our little girl suddenly manifests great power...

My sisiter--she's hot!!...but without great responsibility...

She really hates CIA agents...Fortunately, the chump she walloped was Clark, so he's OK. This little girl, though, is holding her own against the Kryptonian teen:

Hey--kicking is no fair!!
Clark says that to all the girls...
Think hard, Kal-El, she's kicking your assFortunately, Kal figures out the deal, throws the crystal into the sun (if that happened today, someone would run and do a nineteen-issue arc about an evil villain intercepting the crystal before it reached the sun and becoming incredibly powerful, and killing some of Superboy's relatives in the process)...and poof go her powers.

But wait--who was that girl??

Uh...Superboy, could I borrow that crystal again for theKilling Joke?!?
That's right...a prepubescent Barbara Gordon kicked Superboy's ass. Come to think of it, that would have been a better way to end Infinite Crisis...

Of course, Bahlactus saw that twist coming, because he's seen it all!!

The adventures of Superman when he was the Beaver took place in Adventure Comics #453 (1977). Can you believe that DC isn't currently publishing anything under the title of Adventure Comics?!? What a waste of a venerable title...

3 comments:

  1. I'd totally forgotten that comic. It's somewhere in my collection and was one of my earliest comics. Thanks for the flashback.

    And yes, Adventure Comics is one of the best titles ever.

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  2. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I used to have this one as a kid as well :). I was so thrilled when I found out the girl was Barbara Gordon, heehee. She was quite obnoxious as a kid, though.

    I'm adding your blog to my links ;). Check mine, please.

    See yah!

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  3. And a couple years later, guess what comic title is in use again. :)

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