Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Greatest Cover You've Never Seen--Superboy #112 (1964)

Some Silver Age DC covers are just so perfectly bizarre:

Questions, I've got questions...

1) The Kents worked as a butler and maid? How very Smallville Abbey. Is there an Alfred crossover at all?

2) The rich dude is going to fire them because they have a flying baby? If I were a rich dude, I would reward my employees for stuff like that...

3) The rich dude's companion--WTF? Cigarette holder, sunglasses and kicky cravat? Please tell me he has a German accent and is a film director, too...

4) So, Superbaby can memorize an entire nursery rhyme, but still cannot master the most basic grammar?

5) Why, oh why do I not have this comic book?

Superboy #112 is from 1964
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4 comments:

  1. Dandy ForsdykeJanuary 10, 2013 at 3:24 PM

    What diet has Martha Kent been on - nice trim figure there..

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  2. SallyPJanuary 10, 2013 at 6:03 PM

    I can see Pa Kent as a footman/butler, but Martha is a bit long in the tooth to be a parlor maid.

    I'm not even getting into the whole serving up a flying baby thing!

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  3. notinthefaceJanuary 11, 2013 at 6:33 PM

    I still imagine Superbaby talking like Stewie Griffin.

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  4. Martin GrayJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:11 AM

    I have this one somewhere, inherited from a neighbour when I was little. I can't remember anything about it though, darn. Must dig it out.

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