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submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In the 1970s, Clark Kent used to very frequently find an excuse to change to Superman by claiming to have an upset stomach and dashing off, which I always took to mean that part of Superman's clever disguise is that everybody thinks Clark Kent gets diarrhea a lot and Superman presumably doesn't.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Hey here's someone who gets it

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

There's a pathology I associate with Boomer comic fans tho it seems to live on: Guys who hate Frederic Wertham with the fury of a thousand suns, but their ideal comic story is the type that were only produced under the CCA, on account of everything after that is "grimdark" and "angsty" ...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Argentinian publisher Editorial Perfil produced this original, licensed Rambo series (based on the toyline, which was based on the cartoon, which was based on the movie). Never published in English, which is a shame for Rambo fans who wanted more science fiction in the property.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Today on Gone&Forgotten, it's SOLARMAN, the superhero who's here to save us all and, if he doesn't, well, a friend of his will kill all of us. Sounds fair!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Lois Lane : What's the 'S' stand for? Superman : The ... S? (looks down at chest. Flashback to earlier. Zuperman stands before a full-length mirror, adjusting his chest emblem. "Now they'll all know I'm ... ZUPER!" he proclaims, with heartbreaking earnestness)

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Why, no, Mimi - we don't mind!

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Poking around old newspapers looking for instances of "Truth, Justice and the American Way" that predate its first use on the Adventures of Superman radio show (Sep '42). Most remarkable alignment I've found actually comes later, during Gen. MacArthur's 1944 speech to the liberated Philippines...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment