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!!
So 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:
Her older brother, also a counselor, decides she needs to be punished, and she's pretty damned grumpy about it.
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:
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...
...but without great responsibility...
Fortunately, the chump she walloped was Clark, so he's OK. This little girl, though, is holding her own against the Kryptonian teen:
Fortunately, 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??
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...
So 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:
Her older brother, also a counselor, decides she needs to be punished, and she's pretty damned grumpy about it.
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:
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...
...but without great responsibility...
Fortunately, the chump she walloped was Clark, so he's OK. This little girl, though, is holding her own against the Kryptonian teen:
Fortunately, 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??
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...
I'd totally forgotten that comic. It's somewhere in my collection and was one of my earliest comics. Thanks for the flashback.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Adventure Comics is one of the best titles ever.
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.
ReplyDeleteI'm adding your blog to my links ;). Check mine, please.
See yah!
And a couple years later, guess what comic title is in use again. :)
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