Monday, March 14, 2011

Manic Monday--Superboy Is A Slacker

Maybe, just maybe, Kal-El was just a little bit too powerful back in the Silver Age:

So what did YOU do before breakfast today, hmmm?

Superboy moves dozens of worlds "to the other side of the universe" and saves "countless billions of lives" in the VERY FIRST PANEL of Superboy #140 (1967). Seriously, there's 12 1/2 more pages to this story, even though Jim Shooter has just completely blown your mind in panel number 1!
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3 comments:

  1. SiskoidMarch 14, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    Saved them? Or destroyed each and every ecosystem?

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  2. snellMarch 14, 2011 at 9:39 AM

    That's the beauty of the Silver Age--you didn't have to worry about stuff like "ecosystems" or, more broadly, "reality." Plus, the story was written by a fifteen year old kid--so much for Sputnik having improved the science education of American kids, eh?

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  3. GaryMarch 14, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    Ha! And people bitched about Superboy-Prime moving Rann into Thanagar's orbit in the run-up to Infinite Crisis!

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