Monday, November 26, 2018

Manic Monday--The Super-Exterminator!!

A cat named The Insect Master is terrorizing Metropolis, using his trained bugs to cause devastation (in order to set up a big extortion payoff from the city). Termites are collapsing big building!! Moths are destroying the fashion district!!

After Superman cleans up those messes, he's just in time to see a swarm of locusts attacking the Horticultural Gardens (as opposed to the non-horticultural gardens...?)




So how does the Man Of Steel deal with a swarm of locusts? Blow them away/freeze them with super-breath? Gather them in his indestructible cape?

Nope. He's gonna smoosh 'em all--by hand!!


Yes, Superman killed "hundreds of thousands" of locusts...by hand!!

At least he didn't use pesticides...

From World's Finest Comics #10 (1943)

1 comment:

George Chambers said...

This looks like fairly early Golden Age Superman, judging from the art and the speech balloons; so he wouldn't have had the freeze breath or the heat vision, which I agree would have been much more efficient than hand squishing.