Yeah, Wayne was supposedly the playboy, but apparently, Clark was the one putting the moves on EVERY DC heroine.
A couple of weeks ago, we saw that Superman went on a blind date with Batgirl. An honest to gosh blind date!!
Well, it turns out she wasn't the first, because Clark also had a hot blind date with Diana Prince!!
We start in Metropolis, the city that apparently has no actual news, because the Daily Planet editor keeps assigning his star reporters to crap trend stories:
Meanwhile, in New York City...
Well, it's pretty obvious what's going to happen, right? They both put on their "hot date" attire, and...
And with all his Kryptonian compassion, Kal-El decides that poor powerless Diana needs a pity date:
Oh, you schmuck.Well, next they fight off some muggers in an alley, as we saw in this week's Friday Night Fights. (In fact, there's still time to run over to Spacebooger's crib and vote for me!!)
Then, in something that could only happen in DC, Clark and Diana are whisked off to the desolate, lifeless Earth of 2171. Unfortunately, so were the erstwhile muggers, and this time they brought a gun.
So while Superman palavers with the last computer in the world, Wonder Woman is menaced by marooned muggers. Fortunately, Superman returns in time to save her, which impresses the hell out of Diana, and nature takes its course:
"Darn it"??? "Darn it"!?!?!?!?!?!Why the hell can't you kiss her, you big lug?? "I shouldn't"?!?!?! Why the hell not?? Is that the Kryptonian equivalent of "it's not you, it's me"???
Anyway, that's the last that's mentioned of the dating business, or any chance of (gasp) kissing. Superman and Wonder Woman travel back to the present and save the life of some student whose death would bring about the apocalypse. The end.
And we're left to spend the next 40 years pondering why the heck they both "knew" that Superman shouldn't kiss Diana Prince. Thanks a lot, Denny O'Neill, Dick Dillin and Joe Giella, for baffling us in World's Finest #204 (1971).
"And we're left to spend the next 40 years pondering why the heck they both "knew" that Superman shouldn't kiss Diana Prince."
ReplyDeleteSurely it's the whole "Lois Lane is my true love" thing? Which Wonder Woman was presumably aware of?
Well, perhaps...except A) why be so oblique about it? B) He also goes on a blind date with Barbara Gordon a couple of years later, and doesn't seem to be worried about Lois there (granted, he was doing a favor for Batman).
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the whole "woman of Kleenex" thing?
I remember that issue. I thought they'd made up computer dating, it seemed so futuristic!
ReplyDeleteAs for the Planet's apparent news drought, well, Clark was only working nights as a newscaster, and Perry did say it was a Sunday colour piece :)
Darn it!!
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