Lana Lang is working hard on her project to prove that
Clark Kent is
Superboy...apparently with charts and graphs and Powerpoint. (If she were a certain hack "
explanatory journalism" site, she would bellow "
40 Maps That Explain Why Superboy Really IS Clark Kent!")
Her father, the normally mellow and somewhat befuddled
Professor Lang, isn't impressed:
It is interesting that his first reaction is to think of underworld figures ransacking the bedrooms of teenage girls, looking for their diaries or such...
Ah, but his delightfully
disproportionate reaction?
Geez louise!?!
Phew indeed. Still, my scan of that panel will end being posted on many a special-interest tumblr, I'd wager...
But Professor Lang has
other punishments at his disposal...
D'oh!!
(Note to modern readers: read as "
I'm taking away your MP3 collection.")
OK,
no dates and
no records. That will teach her good.
(Note to modern readers: read as "
I'm taking away your iPad.")
Fine. Surely she's punished enough
now, right?
Great--you're going to starve her. Overreact much?
Man, I can't wait to see how he punished when she did something that was actually, you know, bad. It's a wonder Lana survived to her teenage years...
From Superboy #93 (1961)
I kind of expected Professor Lang in panel 3 to say, "If Clark really is Superboy, he'll explode your head with his heat vision for screwing with him... and then he'll kill me and your mother, too!"
ReplyDeleteGeorge, that would certainly make more sense!
ReplyDeleteIf...if only Alfred had done this to Batman when he came up with all those plans on how to kill the Justice League, and apparently left them lying around!
Ugh, the Silver Age.
ReplyDeleteMy evaluation of the Silver Age is simple: would this story have been written if the Code did not exist?
"I kind of expected Professor Lang in panel 3 to say, "If Clark really is Superboy, he'll explode your head with his heat vision for screwing with him... and then he'll kill me and your mother, too!" "
Dude, don't give away Irredeemable.
Damn it, Sally, now I can't get this image of Alfred spanking Bruce out of my head!
ReplyDelete... I'll be in my room.
Is it my imagination or does Lana Lang's dad seem to be Walt Disney?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking more Albert Dekker
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