Poor
Superman is whining again about his dead parents...
Fortunately,
Jimmy has
a magic wishing totem (seriously) and decides to
waste use the final wish on giving Superman
his wish!
The
real reason for typing? So we can have a stupid plot complication like this:
Oh, Jimmy. Typing "
mate" when you meant "
meet"? How does that even work? Sounds like a real naughty Freudian slip, to me!
Good thing this is a
Silver Age,
Code-approved book, then. I sure some modern creators would literally try make Superman mate his parents.
Ewwwwww!!
Nope, that just means he has to help them get married. Phew!!
Kal-El meets them when they're young and adorable...but they have a secret!!
"
Kil-Lor"?
Kil-Lor?!?!?! Oh my.
You do have to love the partially obscured but very obvious swastika behind them. Were
Jor-El and
Lara space Nazis?!?
Just then...
The
KBI!!
Ah, so Jor-El is
undercover, infiltrating the space Nazis!! Gee, only two cliched things could go wrong with that plan...what are the odds of
both of them happening here?
100%, it turns out!
Sure, you gotta trust the Kryptonian justice system!
D'oh!!
After Kal-El frees them, and creates some Kryptonite decades early in order to defeat Kil-Lor...
Damned
convenient, this science stuff!
But...but...that's very
timey-wimey!!
Wait!! If Superman
hadn't intervened, they would have been on in suspended animation on their satellite for 100 years, and Kal-El would not have been born before Krypton exploded!!
But...but...
Forget about it
snell...it's the Silver Age.
From Superman #123 (1958)
The time travel is perfectly reasonable -- it's just a standard "you can't change the past" setup, where Superman ALWAYS was the one who arranged for his parents to avoid prison and get married. Dunno if DC time travel usually works like that, though given all the time travel that I know happens there, it's probably more consistent for it to be impossible to change the past than assume the LSH never irreparably screwed up history.
ReplyDeleteThe undercover mix-up, on the other hand, is just hilarious!